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Iowa | Anybody got any ideas why kids today are so big? My son is in 7th grade - just really starting to mature - the difference between 7th and 8th graders is huge (I don’t remember it being that big of a difference 25 years ago). But a lot of these kids are BIG. My 7th grader is still about 5 inches shorter than me, but his hands are already longer, feet bigger, longer arm reach. I know my generation was bigger than the previous by a small amount - but there’s a lot of these high school kids with dads < 5-10 that are 6-2+. I’d expect jumps like that in Hispanic communities where there was some malnutrition (and you do see it), but my generation had all the food we wanted. The other thing I find interesting: lots of these kids do nothing to speak of - but their lifting numbers are pretty impressive especially given how little time they’re actually there. | |
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Size of kids today
