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Abstract

Over the last 100 years, studies have provided mixed results on the mortality and health of tall and short people. However, during the last 30 years, several researchers have found a negative correlation between greater height and longevity based on relatively homogeneous deceased population samples.

Findings based on millions of deaths suggest that shorter, smaller bodies have lower death rates and fewer diet-related chronic diseases, especially past middle age. Shorter people also appear to have longer average lifespans. The authors suggest that the differences in longevity between the sexes is due to their height differences because men average about 8.0% taller than women and have a 7.9% lower life expectancy at birth. Animal experiments also show that smaller animals within the same species generally live longer.

The relation between height and health has become more important in recent years because rapid developments in genetic engineering will offer parents the opportunity to increase the heights of their children in the near future. The authors contend that we should not be swept along into a new world of increasingly taller generations without careful consideration of the impact of a worldwide population of taller and heavier people.

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• 也可能是打籃球年輕時身體消耗過大？身高應該隻是考慮因素之一。北歐人身高相對較高，但壽命好像不短。 -yasas- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/01/2013 postreply 06:55:30

• Check out this graph -attached to above research paper -Sh1- ♂ (1223 bytes) () 04/01/2013 postreply 06:59:34

• 不過高的人，就像一個機器，驅動他需要更多的力量，對內髒磨損更大。 -trendspike- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/01/2013 postreply 07:34:54

• 回複：可女孩還是喜歡高的。 -Huchi99- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/01/2013 postreply 15:08:30