Zwolle #27 waar iedereen op zoek is naar een baan

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:05 schreef descendent1 het volgende:

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Gold dat ook maar voor de dartsters!

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The Times February 01, 2007

The Dutch get ahead for heights

Raising the bar

Americans are not walking as tall as they once did.

From colonial times until after the Second World War, Americans were the tallest people on Earth, as befitted the richest nation.

But European nations have overtaken them, according to a study. The Dutch are now the tallest and the Norwegians, Danish and Germans have also overtaken the Americans.

Why this should be is a puzzle, admit John Komlos, Professor of Economic History at the University of Munich, and Benjamin Lauderdale, of the Department of Politics at Princeton, reporting in Annals of Human Biology.

Professor Komlos suspects that it may have something to do with the junk food trend that hit the US before Europe. Alternatively, the more equitable healthcare systems of Western Europe may enable more people to reach their optimum height, while many poorer children in the US remain deprived.

But these explanations are conjecture, he admits. What is beyond argument is that average heights in several European countries now exceed those in the US. The data come from a variety of sources. Regular health and nutrition surveys in the US provide data on adult heights. Data gathered on US military personnel provide another source.

European countries have also gathered reliable data as a basis for comparison.

The figures show that the average height of an adult white male in the US rose steadily until the generation born in the early 1950s. Average height then remained constant for a decade, increasing slightly among those born around 1980. The same trend was seen among white women.

The black population experienced a stranger trend. Black men were the most rapidly growing group until those born in 1970-74 — the first black generation to match their white counterparts. Since then there has been no increase.

Black women achieved parity with white women much earlier, at the end of the 1920s. But since then they have shown no increase.

While American growth rates were stagnating, those of Europe were surging ahead. The paper does not include British data, but shows that by the generation born around 1960, Dutch, Norwegian, Danish and German men were taller than Americans.

Today, the two authors say, young white American men are 4.7cm ( just over 1¾in) shorter than Dutch men, and white American women are 5.7cm (just under 2¼in) shorter than their Dutch counterparts.

“This is a stark reversal of the pattern in the mid-19th century when American towered over Europeans by similar or even larger margins,” they write.

Several obvious explanations can be dismissed. Immigration into the US is not a factor because the comparison is made between Americans of European descent and their opposite numbers who remained in Europe. The US Army data also make it possible to exclude first-generation Americans without affecting the results.

A second reason to dismiss immigration come from the data for black people. Their stature has stagnated even more than whites’, and there has been very litle black immigration into the US.

Genetics are ruled out as genes do not change that fast, and 50 years ago Americans, with the same genes, were taller than Europeans. All that is left is environment. The first possibility is diet. “There are reasons to believe,” the authors say, “that US diets are deficient to some extent as nearly a half of household food expenditure is spent on food outside of the home.

“Meals consumed out of the home are less balanced than those consumed at family dinners. Yet the extent to which these differences might affect final physical stature has not been investigated.”

A second possibility is healthcare. “Socio-economic inequality in America is much greater than in Western Europe and inequality has a negative effect on height,” the researchers say.

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:18 schreef beelz het volgende:

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Co Stompe is toch die kale kansloze kerel die nooit wat wint en ook nooit wat zal winnen?

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:20 schreef beelz het volgende:

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Ik ben 1,76 en weeg rond de 90 kilo.
90 kilo puur spier that is

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:24 schreef beelz het volgende:

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Nope, geen bierbuik hier. Een strak wasbord is het enige wat je op mijn balg aantreft.

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:43 schreef beelz het volgende:

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Darten is geen sport.

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:43 schreef beelz het volgende:

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Je hebt niet opgelet hier of wel?
* beelz is een pro-wrestler

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:45 schreef beelz het volgende:

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Een sport is iets waar je moe van wordt door het te doen, niet door er naar te kijken.

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:49 schreef beelz het volgende:

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Dat is sumo worstelen

Dit is een pro-wrestler:
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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:50 schreef Sylvana het volgende:

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lol idd

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:52 schreef beelz het volgende:

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Waarom is dat geen sport? Zo'n lichaam krijg je niet van op de bank zitten en wachten tot je eindelijk eens de kroeg in mag om een spelletje te spelen waarbij 2 vadsige, harige, zwetende kerels bier moeten drinken en pijltjes in een bord moeten gooien.

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:54 schreef Sylvana het volgende:

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ownee? die beweging maak ik anders vaak zat bij mannen hoor niet bij mezelf nee, maar wel bij anderen

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 16:58 schreef Sylvana het volgende:

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ik heb al iemand gevonden voor dat klusje hoor

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 17:14 schreef beelz het volgende:

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Wow.... Dit is ongeveer het zieligste wat ik ooit gelezen heb

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2007 17:47 schreef beelz het volgende:

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Zo kun je alles wel doen... Ga je ff fijn de holocaust ontkennen, komt de politie je ophalen en dan zeg je gewoon "Ja ik meende het niet"