STATURE AND WEIGHT OF CHILDREN OF THE UNITED STATES

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Are children of the United States reared during the last twenty-five years taller and heavier than children reared during the quarter of a century immediately preceding? Is there an appreciable relation between the socioeconomic group to which children belong and their stature or weight? Does growth in stature and weight proceed at a different pace for children living in certain geographic areas than for those living in other localities? Do children of the United States of various racial or ethnic groups grow differently in stature or weight? It is common knowledge that attempts have been made to answer each of these questions. In fact, it is widely held that sufficient scientific information is already available to justify answering all four questions in the affirmative. The purpose of this paper is to bring together representative results for investigations on the foregoing questions, to indicate certain limitations of the evidence and to

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