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Wow its almost like mean height is affected by poverty and nutrition or something
Yeah I bet if you overlaid life expectancy it would map almost perfectly
I wonder if there are other non-obvious-once-you-think-about-it-and-stop-being-racist tells
welwp, at 186cm i'm about average in The Netherlands.
The Dutch are incredible. Once upon a time they were the shortest people in Europe. Now they are the tallest in the entire world.
They do a lot of stretching.
Now do weight ...
Amerikans winning, we greatest!
Greasiest
I think the British passed is a few years back.
We’re starving more people now, plus glp-1s.
tfw I'm under the mean height for the netherlands
It's real shortcel hours
By 2050, Chinese men will be 3 metres tall
Crazy! Did the small chinese hight come from malnourishment or hard labor? Otherwise that increase would be hard to describe right?
Better quality of nutrition - more protein and vegetables. Much more vegetables. An absurd amount more vegetables.
They also fixed their zinc deficiency, which has long been known to affect height.
But seriously, the vegetables.
Graphs pictured:
- Daily supply of calories that are available for consumption, Measured in kilocalories per person per day. 1985 to 2023
- Estimated share of the total population in each country with zinc intakes below physiological requirements, 1990–2005
- Average daily per capita protein supply, measured in grams of total protein per day, 1985 to 2023
- Average per capita vegetable consumption, measured in kilograms per person per year, 1985 to 2023
Wow. I need to upy vegetable game.
Unfortunately your government will not allow it on a large scale or allow you to do it too extensively on your own property.
the US doesn’t use cm
2% of a football field tall
confirmed, dataset ruined
they are 3 feet, 2 elbows and a thumb high.
I prefer the standard units of small dogs or the modern bananas for scale.
7/16s of a thumb.
It shows americans growing after a decline, this study from 2025 shows they're still getting smaller
damn. Smaller Americans means less real estate to accumulate products from the food industry. Smaller stomachs are faster to fulfil
This is really fascinating!
German man is taller than me. That's sad ;(
I see you have fallen into the "taller male dominant" trap. the great equalizer is the testicle strike - and you have the advantage :-)
What if it's a really tall man with short legs and an extra long torso though?
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