Scientists from the Russian research center found that today’s students in Russia is physically degraded with respect to their peers of the 70-ies of the last century.
Researchers from the Scientific centre of children health RAMS argue that modern children born in the last 10-15 years, seriously inferior to the physical parameters of peers, born in the 70-80 years of the last century.
It is believed that growth continues until around 25 years, but the limit of growth depends primarily on the genetic predisposition. A number of factors led to the fact that the average height of Russian children decreased by 2 cm, and average body weight decreased by twenty percent.
In addition, experts say that the current generation has poor health, and children are much weaker physically.
Under the statement of researchers, the strength of the hand in boys decreased by as much as 30%, and about one-third of today’s teenagers already have restrictions in the choice of profession for medical reasons, according to “Moskovsky Komsomolets”.
Deputy Director for scientific work of the Institute of nutrition of the Russian Academy of medical science Alexander Baturin believes that the root cause drop-down of those trends is the lack of proper, balanced nutrition and poor drinking water quality. Many children do not receive the right amount of vitamins and minerals.
He notes that about 45% of children lack of calcium in the daily diet.
According to Baturina, the problem is in the fact that the children choose themselves not very useful products: for example, instead of milk — carbonated, and sometimes alcoholic beverages. However, due to low consumption of dairy products in children is slowing down the development of the skeletal system, develop osteoporosis, tooth decay, rickets, there is a high risk of bone fractures, slowed growth.
So, for the last 10 years for precisely this reason one and a half times increased the number of students with dystrophy.
Doctors advise to eat more cheese (for example, 3-4 sandwiches a day) and drink at least three glasses of yogurt daily.
The researchers also explain that negatively affect the physical development of modern children’s sedentary lifestyle. Students spend most of their free time at home near computers and televisions.
According to scientists, the cause of poor physical development is the excessive number of irritating factors and situations faced by the current generation of stress, which the child is today in the family and school.
In turn, according to a study published in the journal eLife, the tall men living on the planet, the Dutch. The average height of men in the Netherlands is 180 cm.
The highest female live in Latvia — that’s where their average height is 170 cm.
One hundred years ago, the highest men and women lived in Sweden. Now the Swedes are not even in the top ten most tall people.
The top ten countries in which live the most stalwart men, with the Netherlands followed by Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Denmark, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Iceland and the Czech Republic. A dozen countries in which they live the high women, about the same: first Latvia, then the Netherlands, and Estonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Slovakia, Denmark, Lithuania and Belarus.
The average height of Russians is 171 cm: men — 176,5 cm in women was 165.3 cm In the last hundred years the population of Russia increased by more than 10 cm, but this was not enough for hitting the ten countries Gulliver”.
The quality of food and the quality of life in childhood and adolescence significantly affect the average growth of the population, according to scientists from Imperial College London, world health organization and several other research centers.
The researchers believe that their theory is better confirmed by the example of South and North Korea. In the 1940-ies the average growth of the population of both territories was approximately 160 cm. After 1945, when the Northern and southern part of Korea came under the influence of the USSR and the USA, the statistics have changed. Now the average height of Koreans from the North is 168 cm, and from the South, more than 172 cm Genetic factor is to be excluded, because the roots of the inhabitants of North and South Korea are the same. Therefore, the researchers conclude, took place impact quality of life.
