What influence does healthcare have on the average height of a population? Healthcare can have plenty of effect on an individual, but on a population? Most kids get well-child checks, don’t need much medical intervention.

I have a problem with the diet argument as well. What we’re probably seeing with these studies is the Europeans stopped killing each other, started eating properly, and now reach their maximum genetic potential.

The “bad” American diet. I agree with the “bad” part; unfortunately, it’s being copied all over the world. But do we have evidence that the high-caloric stuff we eat makes you shorter? I can see coronary artery disease, diabetes, shorter lifespan.

I’m not sure if I can see height disparities. I’d wonder if the American diet might just be like overfertilizing plants. Maybe the kids will grow to the same height…..then, unfortunately, grow fat, diabetic, lipemic.

Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, while excluding France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Eastern Europe.

So this basically Teutonic group is compared to white Americans which is heavily Southern European. The Northern European immigration plummeted right about 1890.

I don’t know why all of a sudden there’s interest in the paper again, I thought it was useless when it came out in 2004, it is just as useless today.