You're Gonna Die...

and then there's this: "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."

You don't see many tall old people.

glatt tried to slip that by.

Tall people are an offense to Goddess Gravity.

Oooh.  I work on the project that provides a lot of the data for the studies mentioned here.  ooh  ooh

re height, I see a few tall old people on a regular basis ....but they're very stooped so it's hard to tell how tall they are ...... 

Note that average height has increased quite rapidly over the last 100 years, so our concept of tall has likely changed too - but the people who are old people now were born over 70 years ago.  When 5'10" was considered tall for a guy -now it's average, so there may be lots of tall old people, we just don't notice them

Last edited by monster (2/07/2024 9:51 pm)

World's tallest people are said to be in Netherlands.  Always wondered why.  Living below sea level (closer to center of gravity)  makes one grow taller?
 

What, another hole in the head?