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- WiseWeasel, on 06/03/2008, -2/+178So I'll just spoil it for you guys since it's such a long piece and only about 0.001% of diggers will likely make it through; the article leans towards lack of pre-natal and post-natal care in infancy, and poor nutrition in childhood and adolescence as the main causes of a decreasing average height in the US, and points to a wide disparity between social classes as one of the main correlating factors with decreased height throughout recent history. Kids and pregnant women need to stay off the junk food!
- jasonliman, on 06/03/2008, -3/+138We are growing horizontally.
- jsaya, on 06/03/2008, -1/+79Thank you, kind Sir. May many inches be added to your offspring.
- DonVitto, on 06/03/2008, -1/+46I'm from Europe, and I'm 5.7 feet tall. But my brother, only 4 years younger, is more than 6 feet tall!! And he isn't a "special case", is the standard of his generation. There are many teenagers all around, whom seem Shaquille O'neil, giants!
PS: My English is horrible, it's because I'm just starting to learn it, by myself, without teachers. I hope this message will be understandable. :) - haentz, on 06/03/2008, -13/+58Americans are only getting fatter...
- reisrocks, on 06/03/2008, -2/+36Articles are getting taller too, apparently.
- Berkana, on 06/03/2008, -5/+27It says that there may be a correlation between Dutch consumption of milk and their height ". . . the Dutch love of milk (a study in Bavaria found a direct correlation between height and the number of cows per capita)"
What they don't say is that milk is full of growth hormones intended to make a calf grow at the phenomenal rates they need to. One of the primary growth factors in milk is IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor-1), which, besides making people grow like cows, also increases their risk of prostate and breast cancer. There is also a correlation between the dairy consumption of a culture and the rates of prostate and breast cancer, but nobody reports that. - rhbama13, on 06/03/2008, -0/+21what if its a girl?
- priegog, on 06/03/2008, -0/+20you must be new here....
- sonnybobiche, on 06/03/2008, -1/+18This is a lie. Cattle are not given growth hormones, because as it turns out, they're expensive and don't actually do very much. Cattle are BRED to grow quickly if they're to be turned into beef, and BRED to live a long time and make lots of milk if they're milk cows. Cattle are not injected with hormones, and any that are present in the milk are present naturally. People just tell you that to scare you into buying organic (expensive) products.
Don't get me wrong; some organic stuff is way better tasting than the regular stuff (think tomatoes, strawberries), but it's generally not noticably better for you. - fatjoe, on 06/03/2008, -0/+16FFS.... note to self: seek summary comment before reading 10 page long article
- pepperen, on 06/03/2008, -5/+20I love being tall, and being Dutch to.
- bosssmiley, on 06/03/2008, -1/+15"Mmmmmm fodder."
- andresthor, on 06/03/2008, -0/+13Then she'll be a model?
- KingGorilla, on 06/03/2008, -2/+15From the junk mails I've been getting it feels like I should also be growing forward
- orlyfactor, on 06/03/2008, -0/+12Better than a lot of native English speakers. Sad, eh?
- priegog, on 06/03/2008, -0/+12Statistics say so. It's a matter of how people perceive you by being taller. being more attractive works too.
- smek2, on 06/03/2008, -0/+11My god, the Europeans will outgrow us all!
- SaladCactusKing, on 06/03/2008, -6/+17Oh boy, more fodder for "hurrr americans" jokes.
- sebby2022, on 06/03/2008, -0/+10OH SHI-
- cyberdork, on 06/03/2008, -0/+9As we Germans like to joke: The Dutch are so tall, because they always need to look over the dikes to check if the water is coming...
Yeah, we are so damn funny! - inactive, on 06/03/2008, -1/+10Does this have any bearing on penis and boob size?
- kevincannon, on 06/03/2008, -0/+9On a side note. I've noticed a lot of Digg articles seem to happy to group 'Europe' as a whole even when the article doesn't.
This article is talking specifically about Northern Europe, particularly the Nordic countries and the Dutch. That's a handful of countries really, so the title of the story on Digg is a little inaccurate. - hwy9nightkid, on 06/03/2008, -1/+10Men get more money if they are taller, it's spelled out why everyday in the way taller people are treated
- priegog, on 06/03/2008, -2/+10a bit short, are we?
- Hangly, on 06/03/2008, -0/+8The Dutch have always been tall. I'm Dutch-American and my family came from Holland about 90 years ago. All of us are tall, and back then we certainly weren't the best nourished.
- cyberdork, on 06/03/2008, -1/+8Growth hormones are illegal in the EU. That's why you can't buy American beef here....
- cyberdork, on 06/03/2008, -0/+7Ahh.. you damn Dutch! :-) I'm German and live in the Netherlands. In Germany I was usually one of the tallest in class etc.
Now when I'm around my Dutch friends I'm often the shortest of the group. At 183cm, 6ft. - Kyan, on 06/03/2008, -0/+7Um, this was SPECIFICALLY addressed in the article:
"The obvious answer would seem to be immigration. The more Mexicans and Chinese there are in the United States, the shorter the American population becomes. But the height statistics that Komlos cites include only native-born Americans who speak English at home, and he is careful to screen out people of Asian and Hispanic descent. In any case, according to Richard Steckel, who has also analyzed American heights, the United States takes in too few immigrants to account for the disparity with Northern Europe." - Dajestar, on 06/03/2008, -1/+8I concur!
- saigumi, on 06/03/2008, -0/+7Did it insult Americans? That is a pretty easy way to get FP.
- lamiaconfitor, on 06/03/2008, -0/+7damnit... Ill have to check the comments next time BEFORE I read the article.
sarcasm aside, I always found the new yorker to be a little too billowy and inefficient in their use of the language. But I suppose that is an appeal to some. - Angostura, on 06/03/2008, -0/+7Oversimplification.
Not much of a raw carrot is actually digested and absorbed, because the cellulose cellular walls remain intact. 'Process' it, but cooking for 5 minutes and the a lot more nutrients are released and absorbable.
"processed" covers a whole spectrum of possibilities. - rhbama13, on 06/03/2008, -0/+6no
- nowhereelse, on 06/03/2008, -1/+7Like we need it.
- scarwars, on 06/03/2008, -0/+6The Dutch are supreme beings!
We will crush you like the ants you are
/sarcasm - inactive, on 06/03/2008, -2/+8insecure much?
- rolfv, on 06/03/2008, -3/+9Napoleon was in fact relatively tall for that particular time period, sry.
- lump1, on 06/03/2008, -0/+5Gee you're quick. That article has only been online since April 5, 2004!
- edzilla, on 06/03/2008, -2/+7You have not read the article, have you?
- coustoe, on 06/03/2008, -0/+5I like how the newyorker can take 3 sentences worth of information and blow it up over several pages of rambling nonsense.
- Serphyas, on 06/03/2008, -3/+8*you're
I'm sorry for being a grammar-Nazi, but Jesus ***** get it right people. - rhbama13, on 06/03/2008, -0/+5yeah it was a dick joke hominidtodd no need to get technical on me
- smek2, on 06/03/2008, -0/+4That's not the point. It is merely a fact observed by researchers. And being researchers they tend to be curious about the cause and effect of things they observe. That has nothing to do with ego tripping. It is you, i guess, who has ego problems, otherwise you wouldn't bring this up.
- dmbchris, on 06/03/2008, -0/+4The worst part about this is that we'll have to watch more dirty, whining, flopping Europeans in the NBA.
- Dajestar, on 06/03/2008, -3/+7Prostate and breast cancer rates in the Netherlands are similar to those in the US.
- inactive, on 06/03/2008, -0/+4Very clear! :-)
- Shenaniganz08, on 06/03/2008, -0/+4I'm 5'8 and both my parents are from Mexico( both about 5'2)
im sorry but realistically thats the best my gene's were capable of - winmywii, on 06/03/2008, -0/+4The hormones are natural.
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