height weight of average american woman
1 Modern American women are an average 166.2 pounds, while the typical man in the 1960s was 166.3 pounds. 2  The weight gain has been blamed on Americans overeating unhealthy foods and scaling back on exercise.  During the same period, men put on an average of 30 pounds.
The average American woman now weighs 166.2 pounds - just a fraction less than the 166.3 pounds that the average American man weighed in the Swinging Sixties. The new study contributes the dramatic weight gain to three factors: that Americans are eating less healthy food, more of it and not exercising as much.