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		QuercusMax on Sept 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Older Americans Are About to Lose a Lot of Weight My parents had 4 boys, two of them in the early 70s and two in the early 80s. Our heights are, in order, from oldest to youngest: * 5' 7", same as our father * 5' 9" * 5' 11" * 6' Now obviously the sample size is quite small, but we've always wondered if nutrition had something to do with it.

relaxing on Sept 13, 2024 [–]

Nutrition is correlated with childhood growth. Was there a reason why how much they were fed would have changed with each individual, but not across the entire cohort?

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