The Shrinking Black Woman

From a recent report: "The average height of a black woman born in the 1980s is just under 5 feet 4 inches; her mother, born in the 1960s, is more than a half an inch taller. Even her grandmother, born in the 1940s, is a bit taller. The average white woman born in the 1980s is about half an inch taller than her mother." Upper-income black women are growing taller. One expert comments that the "only reasonable explanation we can come up with is diet and the obesity epidemic among (middle- and low-income) black women."