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2/2/07

Metro.co.uk: Dutch are the world's tallest - it's official

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Dutch are the world's tallest - it's official

Metro.co.uk: Dutch are the world's tallest - it's official

Once the tallest people in the world, Americans have been overtaken in height by most western and northern Europeans, researchers have revealed.

The Dutch - now the planet's tallest nation - tower over their US counterparts by around 4.7cm (1.8in) for men and 5.7cm (2.2in) for women, research published in the Annals of Human Biology journal shows.
John Komlos, Professor of Economic History at the University of Munich, and Benjamin Lauderdale of Princeton University's Department of Politics suggest that with environmental factors influencing height, poorer diets in the US may explain the shift.

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