Economist traces height trends

U.S. heights don't dominate anymore; economist thinks he knows why

universal healthcare is fast crumbling away.

sicko part deux?

I think diet has an effect on height - but I think it's effect is somewhat limited. I couldn't tell from the article how Komlos measured average height. Was he looking at people who'd been in the US for a number of generations? Or, was he looking at all residents?

tallest people on the planet, but scientists are not sure why that is so. Better h/care, etc. accounts for much of it, but still...

lack of universal healthcare and nutritious food accounts for the type of life Americans will lead.. but I think that immigration does play a part in pulling down the statistical height...

Water fluoridation is the main difference between us and Europe. They quit the practice when the science showed how harmful it is to human health, especially the thyroid gland. As at least 60% of America's water is fluoridated, people are getting way too much. Fluoride is a toxin that affects the thyroid by taking the place of iodine. When that happens all of our glands don't work properly. This would explain the lack of growth, as well as lowering IQ in the USA. Fluoride affects the hippocampus part of the brain which controls reasoning. It makes a person very passive, which is why it is the main ingredient in Zoloft, Paxil, etc. Any food made with tap water has fluoride.

there is a post so silly, so scientifically ignorant, so conspiratorially paranoid, that one must simply step back and marvel at it in breathless silence.

Thank you for that experience.

I guess in the not-too-distant past, you would have been part of the group that mocked doctors who wanted to wash their hands before surgery....European scientists and governments are not ignorant of the dangers of fluoride. My study of water fluoridation is the result of having my daughter die of osteosarcoma two years ago. When the latest Harvard research AGAIN showed the correlation of water fluoridation and osteosarcoma incidence, I left paranoia at the door. This particular bone cancer has increased FORTY percent in the last ten years. according to the government SEERS statistics.

thanks for the sentiment. I hope expanding my warning online will help prevent others from suffering as our family has.

ALL shallow wells are naturally fluoridated at levels higher than used in tap water.

Now, according to your theory, the rural residents who drink from these wells should be short, slow, passive, and carcinogenic. But we don't have those conditions at any greater rate than normal.

These wells have been in use for over 100 years. So how long do you think it will take for this epidemic to show up?

the natural fluoride in your wells is NOT what the government puts in public water. It is a fluoride acid waste from pesticide production.

Are you talking about hydrofluoric acid?

Can you explain the mechanism by which this fluoride causes problems?

If you want an entire explanation of hydrofluorisilic acid the EPA has that info as well as many groups who work to oppose the practice. As a lay person, simply put, this a toxin that is the residue from the silos of pesticide manufacturing. The EPA warns that greater than 1ppm harms human health. This is the amount added to public water(unless there is an accident, which is much more frequent than it should be). Any product made with tap water has this fluoride in it. It is easy to see that the average American is getting alot of fluoride through their average day in what they eat drink, when they bathe, brush their teeth, use various medications, especially for depression, as well as going to the dentist. Many of the huge increases in certain health conditions in America may be attributed to excess fluoride ingestion. If you read the science, fluoride ia a major endocrine disrupter, which can lead to a myriad of problems. Many communities are deciding to quit the practice as the evidence is becoming overwhelming that this policy is hurting, and sometimes killing us. If the pesticide industry couldn't sell this toxin to water authorities, they would be required to dispose of it in the same manner as NUCLEAR WASTE. That's how dangerous it is. A great book to read is Chris Bryson's "The Fluoride Deception". He tracks the history and motivation behind the practice.

According to the CDC



According to the World Health Organization



From Dental and Oral Health Services, Toronto Public Health




And there were many more sources that I know I can trust.

This is NOT a group that I would ever trust.

They agree with the CDC, Health Canada, The American Dental Association, and many other reputable sources.

Why do you believe they are wrong when they are not in disagreement with the consensus?

From my dealings with government authorities during my daughter's illness I learned firsthand how corrupted many of these agencies really are. I will give some examples from my personal experience. I called the CDC because my daughter's cancer was part of a terrible cluster that happened in the year 2001. Osteosarcoma is a very rare cancer, occuring in only one child per MILLION. In 2001 in only ONE county, Allegheny County, there were SIX cases. Even more stunning is the fact that we personally knew TWO of the other children who were also diagnosed. The CDC refused to look into the matter. I contacted every government agency, local, state and national and received no help. The medical profession refused to even acknowledge the incident and I had extreme difficulty even getting statistical info from the tumor board at UPMC Medical Center. Our local paper also refused to do an article about it. The day of my daughter's death I gave an interview to the Associated Press with pictures. It was set to run the day after and when it didn't I contacted them. The reporter told me that higher-ups had pulled it. Sadly,these government agencies have been co-opted by corporations and their stance on many issues can no longer be considered valid. It is past time to question the validity of their positions on many things, not just fluoridation.

and demonstrated that we've been getting shorter. Immigrants were eliminated from that study, and results were separated by ethnic heritage. I'm going by memory here, the study came out over 2 years ago.

We were getting taller and stronger all through the 60s. The trend was reversed when liberals went out of power in 1969 and the conservatives in both parties came in. Nixon's failure to deal with OPEC led to the runaway inflation of the 70s and our wages have never caught up in purchasing power to what we'd been paid in 1969.

Along with that have been the successful campaigns to reserve health care to the richest and to convert the worker bees' food supply to fake food, processed stuff that supplies plenty of fat and salt but little real nutrition.

Make no mistake, the conservative movement has been total warfare against all of us and they are winning. Height measurements are just one of the numerical proofs of that.