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As people get older, their height gets shorter. It's not entirely wrong to believe that your parents will be shorter than you, no matter what your height is.
by yen223 13y ago
As people get older, their height gets shorter. It's not entirely wrong to believe that your parents will be shorter than you, no matter what your height is.
- thaumasiotes 13y agoThis process has limits. Older chinese aren't short because they're old, they're short because of nutritional stress. Also, shrinking isn't a linear process. You spend most of your life only shrinking a small amount; most of it happens toward the very end: > For both sexes, height loss began at about age 30 years and accelerated with increasing age. Cumulative height loss from age 30 to 70 years averaged about 3 cm for men and 5 cm for women; by age 80 years, it increased to 5 cm for men and 8 cm for women. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10547143 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10547143