well excuse me, but I happen to be a US soldier, and recently returned from a year in Afghanistan, engaging in combat, in mountainous terrain. First of all, your standard interceptor vest is loaded with loads of nick-nacks, 12-15 magazines, compasses, GPS, various radios, medical kits, flashlights, flex cuffs, batons, etc, etc, etc. Youre also not counting your side plates, shoulder pads, crotch plate. We kept our rucks on more than we did not, you would never know when or if you would be able to retrieve it under fire.
First off, congratulations on being a better person than me, unless your lieing about being a US soldier.

Anyway

I assumed the wieght for the interceptor vest included all the plates as I have been on a site where a (I think he was a marine, may have been us army though) said he did all his exercise in his bulletproofs with all the plates in and it wieghed a bit under 20 lbs.

Also does all that stuff add up to much as the non military equivelents i have had my hands on werent very heavy at all.

And I didnt know there was enough room for 12 to 15 mags, as I was either told or read that they only held 3 (7 at most) ready mags and all the rest of the ammo was loose..

We kept our rucks on more than we did not, you would never know when or if you would be able to retrieve it under fire.
As I said the people i talked to said they always took it off so I stated that as fact.

Why were you worried about losing it though? Wouldnt anything you lost be replaced reasonably soon?

And I thought you wouldnt try to retrieve it until youd killed or chased off the insurgents.

Then again ive not been there so I dont know.

As an aside do you support the USs strategy in the middle east or not? (Alot of the soldiers ive seen state thier opinion on this have but they hadnt actuaky served there they had served before now)

I dont think the diet was that bad in agriculturally high developed societies like Rome, Greece and Carthague (ok, they probalby had a lower protein intake).
No the shows did say 5 foot 2 was average.

And im sure genetics played a part in it but the ones that said why rather than just said 5'2 was the average said it was due to a poorer diet, they didnt go into any specifics though