In this episode of the Natural Height Growth Podcast we have a very interesting guest Thomas T. Samaras of the research group Reventropy Associates and the website HumanBodySize.com who comes along the podcast to take the opposite side of the arguement and plays devil’s advocate to the basic premise of this website.
Episode #9: Guest Thomas Samaras From Reventropy Associates And HumanBodySize.com Discusses His Research On Human Stature
We go into the subjects of….
- What his decades of research has shown about how human size and height is correlated with our longevity.
- How diet seems to be correlated with our longevity.
- How large bodies are linked to higher instances of cardiovascular based chronic problems.
- Why it may be better to decrease the amount of food we are consuming
- The sustainability of our current consumption rates.
I will also link with this podcast the PDF Tyler from HeightQuest.com would also accidently find and forward to me about the interesting thesis made by Samaras on human stature towards our overall health and the sustainability of the human species on Earth. The title is “Commentary. Human growth, height, size, Reasons to be small” which is also published at Volume 2, Number 3, March 2011Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association, Published monthly at www.wphna.org
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- Length of time: 50 mins
- Beginning of actual interview: 1:15
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Seemed a bit ranty at times. Many people are willing to trade health for goods. Like sleep for example. So why should it be any different for height? Health in exchange for increased quality of life.
Cancer is also an anabolic disorder so changing your lifestyle to avoid cancer requires extremes. Trying to avoid cancer is like trying to avoid a disease that’s present in air.
Also, tall may use more resources but there are tons of other ways to conserve resources other than being shorter. Like more mass transportation. Shrinking people is a bad target for resource conservation.
Yes, you can do other things to conserve resources but you can do the same things with smaller people and save even more resources, energy, water, food, etc.