Poor nutrition in school years may have created 20 cm height gap across nations – Science Codex

A new global analysis led by Imperial College London, and published in journal The Lancet, has assessed the height and weight of school-aged children and adolescents across the world.
The study, which used data from 65 million children aged five to 19 years old in 193 countries, revealed that school-aged children’s’ height and weight, which are indicators of their health and quality of their diet, vary enormously around the world.
There was a 20 cm difference between 19-year-olds in the tallest…

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