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Average height of five-year-old boys in UK/US has fallen sharply
- Fluorescence 3y agoThought this was interesting. One suggested cause is an increase in child poverty. This is the eye-catching chart: https://images.theconversation.com/files/551386/original/file-20231002-29-2m1yli.png https://images.theconversation.com/files/551386/original/fil... From a more accessible article: https://theconversation.com/ed-balls-and-george-osbornes-new-podcast-is-essential-listening-but-not-for-the-reasons-they-think-214747 https://theconversation.com/ed-balls-and-george-osbornes-new... The journal article title is "Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants" which is tricky to make into a good HN title.
- jjgreen 3y ago"Let Our Children Grow Tall", Margaret Thatcher https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102769 https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102769