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 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. .. “
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Oh really. I don’t think that’s the cause of short families.
Not everyone will admit it, but a person’s height plays a huge part in determining his self-confidence. For shorter people, they might have gone through various programs or even eaten supplement that claims to aid in height increase. Their goal is simple – to be able to gain that extra few inches to boost their stature. They are always asking one question: “How can I increase my height