Why Don't You Ever See Really Tall Old People?

Daphne Hare of Buffalo, New York, passed along a clipping from Men's Health magazine, with the results of an Ohio study that provides some pertinent data. In this study, men lost 1.2 years of life for every extra inch of height. That's right. A 6'0" man can expect to live six years less than a man of 5'7".
A previous study indicated even more dramatic height effects. Men who stood less than 5'8" lived to an average age of 82; those over six feet tall lived to the unripe age of 73.

    -- David Feldman's 'Do Penguins Have Knees?', p.226

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