Taller people have a lower risk of many diseases, do better in education and earn more, says Prof Majid Ezzati
RIP my feet – sounds as if it’s time to dig out the high heels. Hey, I’ve always wondered how ethnicity factors? Take me: I’m not quite at the UK average for a woman but I tower over my mum. Obviously we’re both of tiny but mighty south Asian heritage but I was born in the UK.
The jury is out on how ethnicity matters, because it may not just be about genes, but the effect of our parents’ and grandparents’ environment, alongside our own. In one, which at the time had some of the shortest people in the world, they improved the nutrition of a group of young children. The children grew taller and the children’s children grew taller, too.
Currently the Dutch are the tallest in the world, with the average man standing at 1.83m . But they are starting to shrink,This has happened in many high-income countries. Some have wondered if this is down to migration, but it looks more likely to be nutrition. In the case of the Netherlands, the Dutch school milk programme is famous. Yet here in the UK, we have kids going to school hungry.
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