Are generations getting taller?!
Question: I really think they are... I'm taller than my parents; my friends are taller than their parents. Does this mean that in futher generations people will just keep getting taller and taller? Surely not..
Answers: I really think they are... I'm taller than my parents; my friends are taller than their parents. Does this mean that in futher generations people will just keep getting taller and taller? Surely not..
marginally but according to a vague memory i have of reading about a study of this its only due to improving diets through wider availability of foods and knowledge of dietary requirements...
the study actually went on to confront the Asians are short / Scandinavians are very tall stereotype as proof as Scandinavians were traditionally fishermen(physical,rough)and ate fresh fish whereas Asians(focusing on inland/Central remote parts of Asia)were traditionally farmers and ate rice,this apparently lead to the disparity...
but now as everyone has a wider range of foods the average height is rising,so the average height for a fully grown adult male is now 5'10'' to 6'0'' in some places whereas 50 years ago it would have been around 5'6''
Well a hundred years ago people were smaller than they are now, so yes.
In general, yes. We are quite a bit taller than our grandparents, who were taller than the founding fathers, who were taller than the explorers. So yes, but slowly.
no
yes think so!!
It could be .........
Yes, back in the old days 5 feet was normal, now 6 feet is seen as average. So in the future people will get taller.
I am much taller than my parents and my grandparents around 6 foot I think it is because the lack of nutrients of the third world countries
kids grow up too fast im almost fourteen and my girl friends are at leat 5'4 im 5'8 and my guy friends are 6'2 and their 14!
i was the tallest in school and taller than my dad
but i was in a shop last week and 1 of the kid's was taller than me.
so yes i agree!
yes, thats why most cottages etc build hundreds of years ago have really low ceilings, they would once have been quite high
i would have to say yes - if only slightly
In general, yes. Some of this has to do with luck, some with genetic crossing as more and more people of different ethnicities intermarry. Alot of it has to do with nutrition.
Compared to our parents, most of us have better access to a wider range of nutritive foods. It also helps that healthcare has made leaps and bounds in the past 50 years or so and that there are many things we can treat differently than in the past.
Just remember though, for everyone that's taller than their parents, there's still someone shorter. It's still a roulette game.
Yes. I had read somewhere that it's due to the environment and due to what we eat. Apparently, we eat completely differently than generations and generations before us did. As a result, it has affected the "growth hormone" in the human body, producing people that are taller, have larger hands and feet, etc.
I think so
yep, just slowly
not in my family we shrink more every generation boo hoo
Sure are!
Napolean was 5' 2"....We now look at him as being very short and even consider that he lied about his height to get into the army.But the average height of soldiers at that time was 5 foot.
During the First World War soldiers were equally short and the remains of an American soldier were recently recoverd from the French battlefields and he was amazingly only 4'10" tall and his full battle kit must have been a terrible burden for him!
Improved diet is the reason,but it must end somewhere!