Is it harder on the body to be short?

[Anonymous]

Like harder on bones, muscle and cartilages?

[Xfitchick]

No its not. It depends on the activity. And being short also means less torque on joints and tendons because your bones are shorter. For the rest it depends on the kind of sport you want to do whether being short is an advantage or disadvantage.

[Xfitchick]

thanks

[xxbebosxx]

quite the opposite. im 5'9 and im feeling a lot of aches

[1GuyOpinion]

Ummm, no, everything will be scale down appropriately (the exception are disease that intentionally caused the body to be shorter)

[abc3643]

Not necessarily at all. In many ways, it is better to be short.

[Asker]

What are advantages I'm 5 foot.

[abc3643]

Well, many of the advantages have to do with biophysics and that is hard to explain. However I can give one example which isn't hard to explain. The taller you are the more you are going to weigh going up by a power of 3. So, let's say you are 5 ft tall and weigh 100 pounds. If you were the same person, but 6 feet tall, you would weigh 172.8 pounds. (6 feet = 1.2 * 5 feet and 1.2 * 1.2 * 1.2 = 1.728) HOWEVER, the surface area of your feet will only increase with the square of height. So, let's say the 5-foot tall you has feet whose soles are 25 square inches each in area. That means that your 100 pounds are being supported by feet taking up 50 square inches. So, the pressure on your feet is 100/50 = 2 pounds / square inch. If you were 6 feet tall, you soles would be 50 sq in * 1.2 * 1.2 = 72 square inches. So, the pressure on your feet from you weighing 172.8 pounds is 172.8 / 72 = 2.4 pounds / square inch. Being 20% taller means 20% more pressure on your feet...

[abc3643]

The more pressure on you feet, the more difficult it is on them. Indeed, most people who are giants don't live long because their bodies can't handle the stresses of being so tall. For example, Robert Wadlow who was 8 ' 11.5 " died at 22...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wadlow

One downside of being small is that you can get hypothermia more easily because you have a smaller body core. You have more exposed area per unit volume of body, so you will cool faster.

Still, being small has other advantages too.