5 Facts You Didn’t Know
Netherlands is a country in northwestern Europe bordering on the North Sea, and on average it had the tallest people on earth! On average men in Netherlands are 6 feet taller and women are 5’7, in USA men are only 5’9 on average and women are only 5’4 on average, the reason for why people in Netherlands are so tall is unknown.
- In the long past rich peoples were much taller than poor people, but in the modern day world this height gap is closing due to the improved health systems, today poor people eat just as much as rich people in most of the world.
- Did you know that today in USA there are about 1.5 million women that are higher than 5’9, and in Japan the men’s average height is only 5 feet, but this gap is closing as well.
- Each generation has tended to average in a little taller than the last, that is because the awareness and access for good food is increasing, and it’s been proven that the average height if a nation has a strong connection the quality of the nutrition it supplies.
- So why the Japanese people are so short, in general some Asian nations have short people through all history, that has to do a lot with the traditional diets of this nations and the genetic plays a role as well, but we can see that in the past 15 year the Japanese have a growth boost.
