overall death rate and
were shorter than other
ethnic groups. Latinos
and Native Americans
were taller and had
higher mortality rates.
The Blacks and Whites
were the tallest and
had the highest mortalities. Everyone knows
that women live longer
years longer than taller men. The heights of
the men were obtained
from military records
and the population was
genetically
homogeneous since they intermarried due to their
isolation. Their lifestyle and diet was also
very similar. Thus, the
many variables in lifestyle and diet that confound Western studies
wer e minimized in this
study. These findings
were consistent with a
Salaris, Poulain Spanish study of one
and I published million deceased men
a paper on that found shorter men
male longevity lived longer.
in an isolated
Sardinian vilI would like to note
lage. The men
in this village that tall people can live
were shorter a long time and many
than the rest can reach 100 years of
of Sardinia and age. The famous econhad the highest omist, John Kenneth
percentage of Galbraith, was 203 cm
centenarians. tall and lived for 98
We found that years. If tall people
shorter
men experienced slow and
lived about two protracted growth, they
than men. Many experts
attribute this to female
hormones.
However,
smaller size seems to
be the explanation as
Stindl reported years
ago. For example, US
men average 9% taller
than women and have a
9% lower life expectancy at birth. The same
inverse relationship
applies to men and
women in Japan
and Poland.
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