Anthropologist John Komlos (John Komlos) from Munich found that in the last century, Americans ceased to be the tallest people on the planet, according to the British newspaper Daily Telegraph. Now their place was occupied by the Dutch. However, in other European countries, the average growth exceeds the US.

Kolmos studied the growth of Earth's inhabitants for more than 20 years. In the course of his work he received anthropometric data from representatives of various peoples from the 1700s to our time. According to him, at the beginning of the 19th century, Americans were above the Dutch by 8 centimeters and three centimeters above the British. But in the middle of the last century the situation changed, and now Americans are lagging behind in growth of 3 centimeters from the British and 8 from the inhabitants of the Netherlands.

Kolmos associates such data with the fact that in recent years the financial situation of Europeans has significantly improved.

And in America, on the contrary, the gap between the poor and the rich has widened.

At the same time, Kolmos believes that people with a good income who eat well from birth, lead a healthy lifestyle and have access to high-quality medical care. The researcher even came up with such an indicator as the annual income in terms of an inch of growth. At high people it makes 450 pounds, and at low - much less. In addition, according to Kolmos, high people live longer and suffer less from depressions of medicus. En.

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