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 Andy is Freaken tall too! |
Just for the record:
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It's not only tulips that grow tall in Holland
Survey shows Dutch are tallest on planet and getting heavier
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - 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 on 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 6 feet, 1 inch, tall.
The Dutch are growing, said GfK spokesman Koen Snoeren. The Dutch are nearly four inches taller on average than the British and Americans, and almost six inches taller than they were four decades ago.
GfKs 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 four inches in the next few decades. But some data, including GfKs, also suggest junk food is limiting the health advantages that wealth has brought.
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