{"id":25168,"date":"2010-01-27T17:33:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/01\/27\/babies-are-getting-smaller\/"},"modified":"2010-01-27T17:33:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:33:22","slug":"babies-are-getting-smaller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/babies-are-getting-smaller\/","title":{"rendered":"Babies are getting smaller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not the actual babies, but the birth weight of the new ones.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nJust a snippet; I&#8217;ve not looked into this yet.  But given that human size goes up and down over secular time, this probably would mean (if it means anything at all) that we&#8217;ve peaked out with whatever causes that cycle:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Birthweights in the US are falling but no one knows why, according to a study of 36.8 million infants born between 1990 and 2005.<\/p>\n<p>A 52-gram drop in the weight of full-term singletons &#8211; from an average of 3.441 to 3.389 kilograms &#8211; has left Emily Oken&#8217;s team at Harvard Medical School scratching their heads. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18434-us-babies-mysteriously-shrinking.html\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the actual babies, but the birth weight of the new ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6xW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}