BobbyJackson
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Something I was thinking about a bit, just a theory I was coming up with, was height privilege. I would assume that taller people are more lean on average because of their literal size, they require more calories. So that got me thinking if one of the issues of obesity (besides the usual suspects of PUFAs and whatnot) is actually that we're living in a society where food is more catered toward the average which is a growing height. So let's say you're average height or below average, your chances while living a normal life non-health focused life of staying slim are just so much lower. While if you are tall, your chances of staying slim are much higher because even with the crappy food going around, you just require so much more calories in general.
It just made me think of this concept that when you have a mixed height country where everyone is very mixed in terms of their height, you'd have more obesity. Or say, if short people moved to NL, they'd become more obese on average because the average Dutch person requires more calories so the country caters to that caloric intake more on average, particularly since it's a country that's not very mixed in general. I guess you could look at countries that have practically no immigrants or foreigners and have been stuck with the same people forever. Japan, South Korea, etc, they'd be less fat I think overall.
None of this of course is anything to do with how bad diets are and whatnot, tons of people's diets suck, regardless of height and weight. I just think that there must be some height privilege aspect to staying lean in this world of crap food.
It just made me think of this concept that when you have a mixed height country where everyone is very mixed in terms of their height, you'd have more obesity. Or say, if short people moved to NL, they'd become more obese on average because the average Dutch person requires more calories so the country caters to that caloric intake more on average, particularly since it's a country that's not very mixed in general. I guess you could look at countries that have practically no immigrants or foreigners and have been stuck with the same people forever. Japan, South Korea, etc, they'd be less fat I think overall.
None of this of course is anything to do with how bad diets are and whatnot, tons of people's diets suck, regardless of height and weight. I just think that there must be some height privilege aspect to staying lean in this world of crap food.