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1997 – 2001 Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA) and Adequate Intakes (AI)

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Asians are shorter because they eat too much carbohydrates?

NO.
Asians are short, because their genetic pool contains genes that are not high anabolic hormone output. Period.
It is the same reason why Asians have smaller skeletal frames (Im not just talking height here, in an interview with the width of the shoulders, the size of their bones, as her wrist, etc.).
It is the same reason [...]

A strange but reasonable explanation of why big families tend to be short

People from big family with lots of relatives, sisters and brothers are relatively shorter in stature height. You know why?
1 of 1000 young Dutch men is more than 2 meters or 6 feet 6 and half an inch in size
Protestants than Catholics, even in a country as small as Holland, there are significant differences in [...]

How much do men and women shrink in height over their life time respectively?

People tend to lose height as they age. This is mostly related to osteoporosis and reduced water content in the disks (so that the distance between each vertebra is reduced). On average, women lose about 2 inches over their lifetime, while men lose about 1 inch.
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Correlation between Height and Gender

As you may have noticed, gender has a significant effect on height: The growth spurt around the time of puberty occurs two years earlier in girls when compared with boys, but the boys tend to be taller when it begins. Most of the average height difference between adult men and women (about 5 inches) relates [...]

Human height spurts and slumps all through one’s life

From infancy, when average length is 20 inches, to age 2 there is initially rapid growth, then slowing, with about 14 inches in height added.  From age 2 to puberty there is slow, steady growth at about 2 inches per year. As one enters puberty, a growth spurt of 3 to 5 inches in a [...]