People tend to shrink with age, especially after age 50 or so. It has to do with spaces between the joints amount of cartilage and posture. Bone length does not change.

A rich diet does lead to earlier puberty but to my knowledge it does not student the adolescent growth spurt. Early pregnancy, before reaching adult height, does slow or stop growth.

Africans are not as tall as northern Europeans. But Manute Vol and other sports figures in basketball and football receive a lot of press coverage.

Genes are very important at the individual level but these differences tend to cancel at the national level.

Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.

I agree that zinc is one of the important micro-nutrients but people require a balanced blend of food for our biological engines.

The English were relatively short in the mid-nineteenth century and so their expeditions return with stories some exaggerated, not doubt about "giants" who lived in other parts of the world.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

You always have to stay true to yourself.

I'm not a Christian, but I think the Christian message is a good one.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.

The whole issue of how women's management styles are viewed is an incredibly interesting subject.

It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact.

I don’t want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I’ll act if it’s the right thing.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.