Did you know that shorter men tend to live longer?

[MerakSahibi]

Let's set Japan aside—that's a league of its own.

In Europe, the region where men are shortest is undoubtedly the island of Sardinia. What also makes the island unique is that it has one of the highest average male life expectancies. These people, who carry around 80% Neolithic Anatolian farmer ancestry, likely owe their relatively small stature to that genetic heritage.

A study conducted in Sweden found that, as men's height decreases, their risk of suicide tends to increase. Just think: despite all these negative external factors, their biological lifespan is still longer.

So if you're obsessed with your height, that suffering may simply last about three to five years longer.

[Kelley1]

That may be true in selected areas, but there is an optimum height for longer lives that slowly increases as the average height of humans increases. The optimum height for long life is close to the average height. The fact is that the shortest people have shorter lives. Pygmies and the Brush People, and the tallest people have shorter lives.

[FreyaRed]

Glad you will live longer than tall boys, but they won't die alone

[MerakSahibi]

Maybe it's not height that shortens our lifespan, but women.

[Anonymous]

I doubt it, the shortest man ever lived to be 75 years old, that's not much longer than an average: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_Bahadur_Dangi

[OneViewpoint]

Yup, truth. Taller heavier guys tend to wear out bodies faster than smaller lighter guys. Joints, heart, lungs, etc. all take a beating with more mass.

[NaultD]

It's only after 7 feet tall is where there's a large drop off of life expectancy.

[Anonymous]

As a tall man I can tell you there are definitely advantages to being tall especially with women.

[MerakSahibi]

It's definitely advantageous from a sexual selection perspective, much like the peacock.

[Opinion Owner]

For whatever reason women especially western women and western women in big cities have decided that a guy must be 6ft, 5ft10 or 11 is no good. I've known 4ft women that wouldn't get with a guy thats under 6ft.

[Factual_person]

They can't even tell who really is 6' they just say that cause they like following trends like mindless robots

[exitseven]

I knew that unusually taller men have shorter life spans. It is a function of how hard to heart had to work to pump blood a greater distnce.

[lilBigPotato]

Causation vs correlation.

[Factual_person]

There is a correlation

[Abbycado]

Good for them?

[noohair]

Smaller dogs live longer.