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AuthorTopic: tall people and life spans?
Auron
02-02-2003
11:26 PM		did tall people who grew to be very tall and big on diets of fruit necessarily live longer?Does being tall means you have more of what you need, or does growing a lot put more stress on your body resulting in a shorter lifespan?In my observation short or medium height people live longer probably because as they get older their muscles have to support less or am I wrong?
Wai
02-04-2003
03:17 PM
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did tall people who grew to be very tall and big on diets of fruit necessarily live longer?
no

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Does being tall means you have more of what you need
no

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or does growing a lot put more stress on your body resulting in a shorter lifespan?
no; what matters, is how fast individual cells have to multiply themselves, not how much cells you have (how tall / big you are)

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In my observation short or medium height people live longer probably because as they get older their muscles have to support less or am I wrong?
i've never heard of this before.
Our most recent ancestors were shorter than we are, so, the oldest living people (now, and in the past decades) therefore were/are shorter than us anyway...