Read the article by Rob Stein, The Washington Post, August 13, 2007.The article says that trend from census to census of people in the United States getting taller on average seems to have stopped, while Europeans continue to grow from decade to decade. As a result, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, and the Dutch males are all now taller than the average Yank. The situation seems to hold true even when Asian Americans are dropped from the averages.
It seems to me that there may be a problem in comparing people from the United States with just Scandinavians. Perhaps Scandinavian-Americans are taller than average here. Or perhaps there is some hight advantage in living in the north. In any case, one might want to compare North Americans with Europeans (and Aussies and New Zealanders) to see is maybe we have just grown as much as it is in our genes to do so.
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