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Community Hangout => Off Topic => Topic started by: Ascending on November 06, 2020, 09:53:15 AM

Title: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: Ascending on November 06, 2020, 09:53:15 AM: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54828544 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54828544)

I think they are talking about this study:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31859-6/fulltext (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31859-6/fulltext)
Title: Re: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: . on November 06, 2020, 12:03:36 PM: Should have drunk 6 gallons of milk per day when you had the chance.
Title: Re: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: Ascending on November 06, 2020, 12:47:13 PM: Quote from: Harmonica on November 06, 2020, 12:03:36 PM
Should have drunk 6 gallons of milk per day when you had the chance.
;D
Title: Re: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: F_99 on November 06, 2020, 01:27:03 PM: F*ck, I was skinny af as a kid and had a somewhat poor diet.
Title: Re: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: Medium Drink Of Water on November 06, 2020, 03:13:36 PM: Dumb article. The Dutch are genetically tall, the Guatemalans are genetically short. The malnutrition of poor people in 3rd world countries is way more extreme than something a fussy eater in America, for example, would experience.
Title: Re: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: NotSoBigBadBruin on November 06, 2020, 03:48:18 PM: Quote from: Medium Drink Of Water on November 06, 2020, 03:13:36 PM
Dumb article. The Dutch are genetically tall, the Guatemalans are genetically short.
I agree. That study doesn’t make much sense.
Title: Re: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: . on November 06, 2020, 06:31:12 PM: Quote from: NotSoBigBadBruin on November 06, 2020, 03:48:18 PM
I agree. That study doesn’t make much sense.

Neither do you, mate. ;D
Title: Re: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: NotSoBigBadBruin on November 07, 2020, 12:52:30 AM: Quote from: Harmonica on November 06, 2020, 06:31:12 PM
Neither do you, mate. ;D

Yeah, Bruce, we all know that you’d be 6’7 if school hadn’t been so stressful for you.
Title: Re: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: Jellakaop on November 24, 2020, 02:22:29 PM: Ooh that hurts to read! I was really really skinny and underate as a kid. That said, I wasn't "third world country" malnoursihed...
Title: Re: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: 184dream on December 09, 2020, 06:10:36 PM: the most stupid study i have heard my dad is 171 iam 170 during childhood i drank literaly gallon of milk every day until being 13
Title: Re: Poor diet: Children 20cm shorter as a result
Post by: precice strider on December 09, 2020, 06:59:33 PM: I drank 3 cups of milk until 11 1/2.

Still remained abnormally short until my growth spurt.