Why Is Your Grandma So Short?
Learn more about the Goalkeepers report from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation here: http://gates.ly/2fb6CNH Nutrition during the first few years of life has a huge impact on adult height,...
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Your grandma is probably pretty short. In fact, grandmas all over the world are pretty short. As they’ve aged, their cartilage has shrunk, their bones have worn down, and their muscles have deteriorated; as a result, your grandma has been losing about half an inch of height each decade since she turned 40. But even before she started shrinking, your grandma was probably never as tall as she might have been. And that's because many grandmas were malnourished as babies, which inhibited their ability to reach full height later on. There were lots of reasons for this – historically, many people were chronically short on food, or lived through famines. Babies also used to get a lot sicker a lot more often, with illnesses that compromise the body’s...
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Your grandma is probably pretty short. In fact, grandmas all over the world are pretty short. As they’ve aged, their cartilage has shrunk, their bones have worn down, and their muscles have deteriorated; as a result, your grandma has been losing about half an inch of height each decade since she turned 40. But even before she started shrinking, your grandma was probably never as tall as she might have been. And that's because many grandmas were malnourished as babies, which inhibited their ability to reach full height later on. There were lots of reasons for this – historically, many people were chronically short on food, or lived through famines. Babies also used to get a lot sicker a lot more often, with illnesses that compromise the body’s...
