Why are black women shrinking?

This is a totally crazy:

Young black women today are nearly an inch shorter than white women their age and about half an inch shorter than black women born in the late 60s, according to an analysis of CDC data by John Komlos, a professor of economics at the University of Munich in Germany.

Heights by gender, class and race in Komlos’ study rise and drop in waves over the years, but on the whole, every other group besides black women has remained the same height or gotten taller than their parents since the 60s.

Public health experts can’t say exactly what’s behind the reduced height, but medical anthropologists, economists and epidemiologists agree that whatever the cause is, it’s important.

I hope they figure this out.

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Maybe it’s got something to do with black women having babies when “societal collapse, terrorism, and environmental destruction” (and possibly a mortgage meltdown) renders everybody else infertile…

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