The Dutch, already the tallest people on the planet, are still growing in height while also packing on the pounds.
The market research organization GfK said Thursday that data collected over the last seven years showed increasing demand for larger clothing sizes in the Netherlands, where the average man is about 185 cm (6 foot 1 inch) tall.
The Dutch are growing, said GfK spokesman Koen Snoeren.
The Dutch are nearly 10 cm (four inches) taller on average than the British and Americans, and almost 15 cm (six inches) taller than they were four decades ago.
GfK's analysis supports recent studies, including one by Professor Robert Fogel for the Pan American Health Organization, that ranks the Dutch as the tallest people on the planet.
Fogel and other researchers put it down to affluence, a diet rich in dairy products, and good hygiene and health care.
Studies by the Health Council of the Netherlands suggest the Dutch could grow another 10 cm (four inches) in the next few decades. But some data, including GfK's, also suggest junk food is limiting the health advantages that wealth has brought.
Nearly half of the population are overweight, and the council says that in a decade it could be two-thirds, around the level of the United States.
From:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=3&u=/nm/20040722/od_nm/odd_health_tallest_dc
Originally posted by Phlabibitisn't there an african tribe filled with stupidly tall people? cause if so, wel-wouldn't they be classed as the tallest people? 😛
The Dutch, already the tallest people on the planet, are still growing in height while also packing on the pounds.
The market research organization GfK said Thursday that data collected over the last seven years showed increasing demand for larger clothing sizes in the Netherlands, where the average man is about 185 cm (6 foot 1 inch) tall.
The D ...[text shortened]... tp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=3&u=/nm/20040722/od_nm/odd_health_tallest_dc
Originally posted by gambit3NBA? That's basketball, right? Not a big sport in the Netherlands. I think there has been one, some white guy. Don't know is he was any good.
Huum. I do not think I have ever heard of a Dutch NBA player.
Note, however, that we're talking averages here. I once read soewhere that our millitary was asked to participate in some UN mission in Africa "because Dutch men are tall and therefore intimidating." That's probably the only reason they were asked; Dutch men are generally wussies. I'm entitled to say: I'm a Dutchman. :-)
The market research organization GfK said Thursday that data collected over the last seven years showed increasing demand for larger clothing sizes in the Netherlands, where the average man is about 185 cm (6 foot 1 inch) tall.Well I have a very scientific answer to that ...
The Dutch are growing, said GfK spokesman Koen Snoeren.
Since the world is heating up and the polar-ice is melting, the water level is constantly rising... Anyone seen how low (geographically) Holland lies ??
Keep growing DUTCH (and make sure you can swim)
;-)
Originally posted by NicolaiSHoly shit youre tall....... Yeah, us Americans, well, we're the fattest, greediest, SOB's on the planet...except for me...haha....1.82m makes you sound short
Darn ... with my 1.82 m (6 foot) I am below average now ... I already was in chess and now also in height ... :'(
Originally posted by StrayJayThat would be Rik Smits who played for the Indiana Pacers, retired a couple years ago because of bad feet with all the pounding involved in the sport. He stood 7 feet 4 inches tall and was nicknamed the Dunking Dutchman.
[b]NBA? That's basketball, right? Not a big sport in the Netherlands. I think there has been one, some white guy. Don't know is he was any good.
There was also a guy named Manute Bol who played at various franchises and he was 7 feet 6 inches tall, but he was from someplace in African I believe.