The study authors also used data from the Human Development Index (HDI), which ... as well as an average weight gain of 2.70 kilograms (5.95 pounds) for women and 6.48 kilograms (14.29 pounds ...

LONDON — The size of human beings has increased over the past ... in 2003 by the World Health Organization on the height and weight of more than 100,000 people across 69 countries.

Higher inequality was associated with decreases in height and weight. Each unit increase in ... the head of the Department of Human Biology at the University of Wrocław in Poland, who was not ...