After communism overall height jumped, because it affected a lot of people in a short period of time. It is obvious. After communism overall height just averaged by all the people in the country, and no doubt there are local fluctuations on plus and minus, but the final effect is just zero.
Mostly because there was way more food and bigger quality of life which after few years basically came very close to first world standards.
Which just confirms that if you are living in a developed country the main(and probably the only) factor are your genetics. And comparing our quality of life to third world countries and times when war was in every corner is just ridiculous.
nah, for me that height increase bomb after communism fall obviously says that our height is very strong correlated to other factors, of course genetic is the 60-80%. Now the average conditions are stable, then the average height is stable. Right after communism fall, there was an increasing tendency in the average conditions, so the average height of population exploded up.
And the allmighty "average conditions" are what then? Not your pushed before nutrition and quality of life?
Because you try to excuse your "stunted" height with what now?
If you were living in an average first world family there is absolutly no freakin way nutrition or whatever the hell you will come up now did anything to your height(except mentioned before hormonal problems or various syndromes).
I just don't know what are you going for now. I basically said this:
Quote from: YourSpaceBoyfriend on September 01, 2016, 03:41:41 PMMostly because there was way more food and bigger quality of life which after few years basically came very close to first world standards.
Which just confirms that if you are living in a developed country the main(and probably the only) factor are your genetics.
And you disagree with this:
Quote from: Xaime on September 01, 2016, 04:10:34 PMnah, for me that height increase bomb after communism fall obviously says that our height is very strong correlated to other factors, of course genetic is the 60-80%. Now the average conditions are stable, then the average height is stable. Right after communism fall, there was an increasing tendency in the average conditions, so the average height of population exploded up.
Where i said that if you live in a developed country(with your great average conditions or whatever the hell you want to call it) genetics are playing the main factor(and as i said, probably as the only one) how tall you will be(because you will have no negative factors of lack of nutritions or bad quality of life).
I think that genetic play the major role, but our environment have impact on final height, thats all.
Even the twin brothers may differentiate in height about 2 cm.
In the past when nutrition was bad people were usually shorter, now nutrition is at its peak ( I dont think that in the future we could eat even better by economical conditions, I think it has reached its peak) the prove is that in USA the average hasnt increased in 100 years, in Netherlands, however, height has been increasing, so maybe I am wrong and nutrition in 1 world can be inproved yet.But even in that case genetics is 99 at least you are in extreme conditions, what usually doesnt happen anymore.
It is very hard to determine the contribution of nutrition to total height. I think it can be +-5 cm. It is not so few. The best example is Michael Jordan, who is 196 cm tall, and nobody in his family reached 180 cm. Genetic should not have allowed him to grow so high.
Read here http://hnrca.tufts.edu/chao-qiang-laiph-d/
In developed country, gentic play 80% role, epigenetic 20%, in poor countries as China and Africa epigenetic can reach up to 40%. It's science, not my personal opinion.
Very unlikely you will gain any more height and if you did it would not be a lot.
get an Xray and see if your bone fused or not yet (i believe it is). Yes you can fix your height by some excersises for your posture but you will not gain more than 0.5 cm, and if you have 50 years old posture you may add 1 cm at max
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