NaturalNews.com has an interesting article on average height as an indicator of overall population health. I had assumed humans had continually gotten taller over time, but that is not the case.
The main takeaway is that it appears that trends in height for a certain group (say, Americans) are a measure of health, not just health care.
The article begins:
Average height provides one of the best indications of a population’s overall health. Until the last few years, U.S. citizens were the world’s tallest and enjoyed better health than the people of any other nation. Things have changed, though. Now, western Europeans’ height exceeds that of Americans, and the difference is growing larger.
If there’s any question about the connection between height and health, consider that longevity has also decreased during the same time that height has dropped. References vary, but the usually-reported figure is that the United States is between 28 and 38 in the world for life expectancy, behind nearly all western European nations.
Read the entire story here.
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