Many people probably thought about the question of whether the parameters of our own so-called arithmetic mean, and what factors influence that performance metric body became more or less.It is enough to go on a tour of the Museum of History, to be sure: a knight in armor of Kievan Rus' and not fit 16-year-old, and the female slipper those times go except that 12-year-old girl today.It is obvious that the average growth in Russia has changed for centuries.What factors influence its increase or decrease?
Firstly, one can not discount the genetic predisposition: there are people high, and there are undersized.World records that the, that the other side, beat African tribes: the Tutsi, and the Nilotic Maasai "grow inordinately tall" in the 180-200 cm, while men from a tribe of pygmies reach only 150 cm in height.It is believed that the best big man in Europe (188 cm!) Reside in the Netherlands.And the woman 177 cm in the country tulips and windmills is not called "cornstalk".Average growth in Russia also depends on the genetic parameters of the titular nation of a Federal Territory.
During its complicated history of our country is experiencing a surge in "riser" and periods of "shortening" of the nation.In this important role played by other peoples who mingled with the indigenous population, affects the height of the children.Rus Vikings extended growth, while the Tatar-Mongol invasion of much of its shortened.But not only the influx of new blood has played a major role in this process.Average growth in Russia is also depended on the general welfare of the nation.
not in vain in the Russian language the word "healthy" is synonymous with "large".It has long been observed that the sickly child does not grow high.Particularly affects the length of the body of malnutrition or poor nutrition in childhood.Therefore, experts from WHO and considering the average growth in Russia as an indicator of the health and welfare of the people.Obvious evidence of this - the study of the parameters under which a person could take to the army.In the era of Peter the Great, this bar was 163 cm, during the reign of Catherine II - the 160 cm. Then, in the XIX century, the population began to gain centimeters, but Alexander II again pulverized.
And why go far: in the 50s of the twentieth century people whose childhood coincided with the hungry war years, were undersized: factory mainly sewed outfits for women with the growth of 150-160 cm. But then came the "fat" in 1970e, when the average height of men in Russia reached 168 cm and women - 157 cm. In the 1980s, all talking about the "acceleration": almost all children were higher than their parents.When it thundered troubled 90-Tide, the curve of population growth began to decline again.
If the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ordinary man quietly reached 176 cm strips and a woman - 164 cm, now the statistics have changed.Men still hold their positions, while the average increase in women in Russia decreased by two centimeters.Scientists predict that children born after the world economic crisis broke out (2007), will more stunted than their older brothers and sisters, whose first ten years of life occurred in the prosperous 2000-nye.
