How do northern Europeans get so tall while practically starving themselves? Pic related is the typical Dutchman's breakfast. While the American fixes himself a three egg omelette with cheese and avocado, the Dutch man eats this literal children's breakfast of bread with chocolate sprinkles. At lunch, when the American is wolfing down a quarter pound of beef plus fries, the Dutchman eats this yet again, replacing the sprinkles for a dainty slice of cheese and a smear of butter. Then, at dinner time, while the American feasts on an entire frozen pizza, the Dutch man will, if particularly peckish, have some mashed potatoes with a bit of kale.
The end result: the Dutch are the tallest in the world, while Americans are midgets compared to other developed countries. How does this work? The calorie deficit is ridiculous
why can't americans comprehend that quantity != quality?
Dylan Garcia
I use to think this was a meme until I stayed with a friend in the Netherlands.
>breakfast: jam on bread >lunch: nutella on bread >dinner: sprinkles on bread
Some days they would have salmon or ham and cheese on the bread.
Jaxson Gomez
Africa tier
Nolan Morales
Dunno. Why do americans have to eat so much that having a slice of bread seems like starving yourself?
Aaron Rivera
I also add that this bread was the sliced processed American loaf you can find all over the world, which was confusing because in virtually every large European supermarket I visited, that was a bakery producing traditional European breads.
I thought the Europeans were snooty and look down on Americans for eating kraft singles and sliced bread, but they eat as much of it.
Christian Miller
>starving themselves A slice of bread with butter and cheese on it is 200 calories. Two of those is the perfect amount of calories an adult should consume during breakfast.
The problem is that overconsumption has been normalized in the US to the point where a healthy portion is completely foreign to you.
Jackson Hall
Dutch drink a lot of milk which combined with genetics is what makes them tall (calcium + growth hormone)
Ryder Anderson
why are americans such manlets? so many of them have german and british and southern european and even scandinavian ancestry, yet they're barely 5'10?
but really though I don't know, tallest people are the fucking balkanlar in the mountains and they're piss poor eating whatever shit they can get
Jacob Wood
Nutrition is largely irrelevant to height as long as you aren't starving. Americans simply have inferior genetics, especially compared to the fucking Dutch who may be the most genetically superior of any people.
Liam Clark
We eat sandwiches for breakfast and for lunch, however, we don't eat just one of them. 3-5 of them for breakfast and 3-5 of them for lunch is common. And normally, at least in Norway, we don't eat them with chocolate sprinkles.
John Harris
Idk, the normal height come and my friends is like 5'11-6'2" and we are in Maryland, ask the other states
Grayson Hernandez
It varies a lot from place to place. You can't use the US national average since it's generally dragged down by non-Europeans (who on average are shorter).
Leo Sanders
t. D*tch in the US
Cameron Carter
would actually be nice to see the numbers for americans who are of european descent and see their numbers, and only them not """caucasian""" mexican included
Matthew Sullivan
this makes the most sense 2bh >implying height equals genetic superiority but a lot of tall guys I know marry short women, and while that doesn't stop them from having tall kids, it doesn't stop short ones either. Tall couples can have short kids too but its pretty uncommon unless the grandparents were short. There's just more diversity
Luis Sullivan
Height isn't related to nutrition. It comes from sexual selection.
Jason Gomez
height is fairly well correlated with protein consumption though
Cameron Anderson
Same. But in cities or poor areas Im usually taller than most people, and im unironically barely 5' 10" t. maine & floorduh
Logan Torres
>Nutrition is largely irrelevant to height as long as you aren't starving That's wrong. Romans didn't starve themselves, but they were still short because stuffing yourself with bread and some veggies was not nutritious enough.
The increase in average height over the past 200 year is due to nutrition.
Cooper Bell
>tfw both my parents are short as fuck but I'm king of the manlets at 180 cm
Elijah Morgan
>It comes from sexual selection.
>Galton observed that extreme characteristics (e.g., height) in parents are not passed on completely to their offspring. Rather, the characteristics in the offspring regress towards a mediocre point (a point which has since been identified as the mean). By measuring the heights of hundreds of people, he was able to quantify regression to the mean, and estimate the size of the effect. Galton wrote that, “the average regression of the offspring is a constant fraction of their respective mid-parental deviations”. This means that the difference between a child and its parents for some characteristic is proportional to its parents' deviation from typical people in the population. If its parents are each two inches taller than the averages for men and women, on average, it will be shorter than its parents by some factor (which, today, we would call one minus the regression coefficient) times two inches.
Colton Gutierrez
We normally don't eat bread for dinner. Unless it's soup with bread.
Joshua Sanchez
and what is the logic when the child is taller than both the parents, one being average height and the other above average?
Time for McDonalds. I wonder what they have in the Netherlands.
Kevin Murphy
IDK either Op. How do you see European bodybuilders and other big guys and they eat a slice of bread for breakfast while I'm 140 pounds and eat enough food to feed a village for lunch and can't gain a pound.
Because this hedonistic lifestyle of smoking pipes and eating crepes started this generation. In 100 years they will be as fat and disgusting as you.
Wyatt Harris
Nah, we'll continue eating our children and astronaut food.
Gabriel Scott
alot of skinny people here eat like 10 sandwiches per day then gobble down on (kwark) for the rest of the day and in the evening eat a big plate of potatoes and sausage with some kale or sauerkraut
Benjamin Harris
>sauerkraut Foreigner please.
Landon Ward
Notice how I used the present tense. No modern first worlder will have any nutritional deficiencies that would impact height, unlike ancient Romans who didn't have supermarkets.
Evan Mitchell
zuurkool
Nicholas Hernandez
correlation =/= causation
bigger people = more protein consumption needed
Samuel Hill
I don't have breakfast. I wake up at 6h15, at 6h30 I'm already in my car for my 1h daily commute.
Brody Collins
true but that's a ratio of consumption and I'm sure the authors checked for correlation with general intake of other macronutrients
Nolan Myers
you're "sure"?
that's a chart probably taken way out of context
Joseph Evans
this just reminded me I eat hardly anything compared to my parents, but I also drink whole-milk and that seems to make a difference in how much I eat. I tried skim milk for a while and I ate like a pig the whole day. But I doubt most people get skim milk anyways
Benjamin Cooper
In Europe I think it's half-skimmed milk that is consumed the most.
Ian King
and are you northern european or dutch?? why u posting this
Ayden Reyes
I thought it was my blog, I always type in the bad window.
Jayden Perez
>Average American Height >175cm
Lincoln Perez
Because we can into assembly lines pasta boy.
Brandon Martinez
and high rates of obesity and health problems too, taco boy
Angel Rivera
I don't know how tall that is but in moonlanding unit of measurement I am 6'1".
Blake Anderson
>Tacos and not hotdogs
plz
Hunter Davis
andijvie>h*tskots oetz
Isaiah Diaz
literally me
Joshua Adams
can confirm
semi skimmed for drinking full milk for cooking
skimmed milk might as well not exist
Benjamin Lee
>not drinking whole milk
Andrew Jenkins
it has nothing to do with food, americans have too much of nigger and spic blood
Jaxon Gomez
I remember reading an article about this and what was found was that tall people in Netherlands had more children than short people, while the most common trend over the world is the opposite.
Owen Myers
The US has whole, 2%, 1%, and skim Whole & 2% taste the same and 1% & skim are more like water
I dont even know why they seperate it so close together, it's stupid. The differences are hardly noticable per each %. some dumb gimmick I guess
Ryder Clark
2% and whole taste the same to me 1% and skim may as well be water with paint in it
