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 height between people in the north of the Netherlands and the people of the South. The recent study showed a 5 cm or 2 cm height difference between the young men in the northern provinces of the Netherlands – and in the south of the country only 400 kilometers or 250 miles away. Young women show Dutch a 3 cm or 1.5 inch difference. So why should this be?

Machteld Dr. Roeder is a human biologist at the University of Maastricht and auxologist. It proposes that this difference is due less to genetic factors rather than religious:

“The fact is that the north of the Netherlands is a Protestant area – and in the south is a very Catholic. And until recently, Catholics in the south rather larger families … We now know that in general people from larger families rather not so high. Why? Well, firstly, if a mother has many children that they are much older, when the children were born later. In addition to their womb (uterus) are not such a good condition when the first child was born. .. “