Quote from: Hive Tyrant on Mar 03, 2011, 03:47:38 PM
Quote from: Kimarhi on Mar 03, 2011, 05:23:34 AM
Quote from: The Ghoul on Mar 02, 2011, 03:17:05 PM
Quote from: DoomRulz on Mar 02, 2011, 02:24:03 PM
You were seriously 6'5"? Are you Russian or German?
Worse I'm bulgarian. 
Although I was born and raised in the USA.
Typically thanks to the diet available the US can add bulk and height to your frame in your growing years. Its why we are one of the tallest and biggest countries (and island countries like Japan where its harder to raise livestock are smaller). Doesn't help that the livestock are injected with steroids and powerful multivitamins to keep their health up which STAYS in the meat.
You have to be careful that the diet doesn't make you grow the wrong way after your metabolism slows down though.
Eh, you're not that big compared to us (the Netherlands). We're the tallest people in the world (the average male is 6'2") and we don't inject our bovines with steroids.
The US Height is weighted by all the foreigners, imports and different races of people.
Aside from diet, heritage plays a huge part. The US is still amongst the top in the world anyways with an average height of 5'9" to 5'10" depending on whose doing the measuring. But asian and latin heritage bases are usually much shorter than Caucasian, Native American, and African American. All those heritages usually base around the 6' plus range.
The netherlands have nowhere near as close the racial variety that the states do, and thus your pretty much taking the height of just one specific group of people.
Just about every country's processed meat has animals that use multivitamin regimans or steroids. It makes a much healthier overall animal thats harder to be effected by disease.
Most euro countries use the same processes we do.
Of course most people don't know about it because when they think steroid they automatically think the testosterone producing one. There are many different steroids.
