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According to Lt. Col. Shirley Newcomb, Army health promotion policy officer at the Pentagon, low weight was historically associated with malnutrition, tuberculosis, even parasites. Then health care advanced. body weight. Nutrition improved. Tuberculosis, the leading cause of death in the body weight. United States in the early 1900s, all but disappeared. Replacing it as America's No. 1 killer was heart disease - an illness generally associated with being overweight, not underweight. Reflecting a national trend, the post-World War II Army became increasingly potbellied. That is, until 1960, when body weight. the Army introduced weight-for-height charts that included maximum as well as minimum weight standards. A lean, mean force, less vulnerable to a variety of weight-related diseases, is the goal behind the Army's weight-control program. Initially, height-weight standards focused more on appearance than on health concerns, Newcomb acknowledged.
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