New research shows that if you’re above average height you’re general standard of health will be higher too, although you are slightly more at risk from certain cancers.
Not only do tall people have an advantage when it comes to reaching stuff on high shelves, it turns out they’re healthier than society’s more diminutive men and women.
According to Prof Tim Cole at University College London, our height is a good indictor of our health and can be influenced by what we eat and how we live as well as by genetics.
Professor Cole says that tall people have a headstart in life and then continue to prosper.
“Broadly, if you compare the economic groups, the higher social classes are taller because they have a less constrained lifestyle and better nutrition,” he says.
“Tall people tend to gravitate to higher positions in society too.”
??? did I not read the contrary recently ???