[Beth23200]

I think you are quite right about diet being the most important factor. Your height is achieved by a combination of nature (genetics) and nurture (environment). Current knowledge on evolution would say that we can’t genetically evolve into a population of taller people in just a few generations (unless we suddenly prevented all short people from breeding). So the most likely explanation for us towering over our parents is that we have had different diets (and probably different exercise levels). Having more nutrients during childhood than our ancestors did has allowed us to get closer to reaching our ‘optimum’ genetically determined, height. It will be interesting to see how pollution, anorexia and highly processed foods affect our nations’ heights in the future.

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Name : Beth23200, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 25, City : Edinburgh, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : PhD, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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