City Shorties!

In England, I have been noticing a troubling effect.

It seems people who where born and living in cities all there life are smaller than those who live in small towns/villiages. Maybe linked to pollution??

I dont have any stats to back this up,Ill hunt for some later. I just wondered if any one has seen this around them in maybe USA.

Maybe the well known saying "Smoking stunts your growth" should be "Pollution stunts your growth!"?

Sometimes when I go to different towns I'm either shorter or taller than
alot of the women.
And this is all within the same state I'm living in.

I thought maybe it was because the same families have stayed in some of the towns for a long time and passed down their shortness (or tallness).

I love it when I feel taller. cause I'm considered short in my family at 5'4".

live in london and i haven't really noticed this effect, maybe because out of 7.5 millions people it's really hard ot find something.
anyway, what i think you might find in your research is that people living in the cities are more likely to get respiratory desease than the other ones.
when i come out of my house, it is so bad how much it stinks. but, what can we do!

I remember a study done a number of years ago about how living in a city was like the equivalent of smoking so many packs of cigarettes per day. My smallish hometown (pop. 1 million) was about 1-2 packs per day, whereas somewhere like London was 5 packs a day! and I'm moving there in a couple of weeks! oh well think of those idiots who live there and still smoke.

As to the height, nutirition is also a factor, in North Korea people are much shorter than the South Koreans because they lack proper nutirition. Lack of sleep is another thing that can stunt growth. So shortness is a combination of nutrition, environment and genetics.