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Earting dairy, pork, beef, eggs and potatoes in combination makes you taller:
Pork protein has the biggest additive effect, when combined with dairy proteins (r = 0.82; p < 0.001), followed by protein from eggs (r = 0.81) and potatoes (r = 0.81). The correlation reaches r = 0.84, when potatoes are added to dairy and pork. The highest r-value (r = 0.85) was achieved via the combination of proteins from dairy, pork, beef, eggs and potatoes (‘highly correlated proteins’). The strength of this relationship is visually impressive (Fig. 8). ‘Highly correlated proteins’ are also the strongest correlate of male height (r = 0.85)
Eating rice and wheat makes you shorter (negative correlation with height):
Other highly significant nutritional correlates of male stature in 49 non-European countries are total energy intake (r = 0.70; p < 0.001) (Appendix Fig. 9), rice protein (r = −0.65; p < 0.001) and wheat protein (r = 0.62; p < 0.001) (Fig. 7). Rice is the main source of protein in tropical Asia (particularly in Laos, Cambodia and Bangladesh; >30 g/day), which is where we encounter extremely small height means of ∼162–168 cm. The level of rice protein consumption is quite high even in Japan, China and both North and South Korea (>10 g/day). Remarkably, wheat protein correlates with male stature negatively in Europe (r = −0.68; p < 0.001), but positively outside Europe.
Sorry vegetarians & vegans. Fig. 9. Trends in the consumption of animal protein in 14 countries between 1961 and 2011, compared with the Netherlands. Source: FAOSTAT
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