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In recent years, the Japanese have been surprised to find that a group of new generations (post-00s) who are growing up now are generally shorter than their parents.
So, they did a survey and found a very embarrassing result, in the last 30 years, the height of Japanese people has been getting shorter!
In the past 30 years, the average height of Japanese people has been 2.3 cm shorter than 30 years ago!
This makes Japan very puzzled, obviously eating the same as the previous generation, or even eating better, why did the height drop instead?
Many people say that the race and genes of the Japanese have determined that their height has reached the limit that can be achieved at the moment, and it is normal to drop a little.
Is this true?
In fact, looking back at the history of Japan, the height of the current Japanese people is indeed in a "high position".
In ancient times, the average height of Japanese people was not very high, and men were usually only 1.5 meters tall, while women were only 1.4 meters.
So the Japanese are inherently short?
In fact, a large part of the reason for this height is because the Japanese in ancient times had a bad Xi - vegetarianism.
During the Tang Dynasty on the mainland, Buddhism entered Japan, and this Buddhist Xi of not killing or eating meat spread in Japan.
But Japan is not a traditional Buddhist country, so why are ordinary people still affected by vegetarianism?
This is thanks to the fact that Japan produced a "good" emperor at that time - Emperor Tenmu.
In 675 AD, Emperor Tenmu issued a "ban on killing", requiring the people of the whole country not to kill, let alone eat cattle, horses, sheep and dogs.
Thus, the Japanese began more than 1,000 years of vegetarian life.
We don't know if cows, horses, sheep and dogs are happy, anyway, it is an indisputable fact that the Japanese are getting shorter and shorter the more they eat.
However, this Xi was broken in 1853.
This is because with the advent of the Age of Discovery, Japanese people began to gradually come into contact with the outside world.
When groups of "tall and mighty" Westerners came to Japan, the Japanese were surprised to find, wow, why are Westerners so tall?
When a Japanese with an average height of only 1.5 meters looks at a Westerner with an average height of 1.78 meters, what will be his expression?
We don't know what the Japanese think, but what is certain is that the Japanese have begun to reflect, and if they continue to eat vegetarian like this, this Yamato nation is estimated to be a tragedy.
So, during the Meiji Restoration, we began to fully liberalize Japanese people to eat meat, and encouraged children to drink milk and eat steak, in short, to learn from Westerners Xi what they eat, our children eat.
By the time of World War II, almost seventy or eighty years later, the average height of Japanese men had indeed increased significantly, from an average of 1.5 meters to 1.65 meters.
However, this height is not too high in our Chinese opinion, so when the war of aggression against China broke out, the Japanese army was named "little Japanese devils" by us, that is, they were short.
After the defeat of the war, Japan's economy continued to improve with the support of the United States, and its national height continued to rise, according to 1994 statistics, the average height of Japanese men has increased from 1.65 meters to 1.71 meters.
But when Japan fantasized about 1.8 meters per capita, it turned out to make their jaws drop, which is what we mentioned at the beginning, and thirty years later, the Japanese were surprised to find that their height did not rise but decreased.
Therefore, some people have suggested that it is possible that the height of Japanese people has reached the limit of genes, and it is impossible to be taller.
Is this really the case?
In fact, in the past 30 years, the height of the Japanese has not risen but has fallen, and objectively there are still several reasons:
1. The amount of food eaten by Japanese people is getting smaller and smaller
Friends who have been to Japan believe that they have experienced that in Japanese restaurants, the amount of dishes is really small, and there is a small handful of food in the middle of the huge plate.
But that's the size of a Japanese adult's meal.
As a result, Japan has the lowest obesity rate of any developed country.
If you eat less, you will naturally not be able to absorb more nutrients, and it is reasonable that your height will drop.
2. The concept of deformity in the Japanese pregnant woman
In recent decades, a unique concept of deformity has developed among pregnant women in Japan, who are keen on ultra-low body weight.
They believe that this is effective in reducing the risk of pregnancy poisoning.
So this leads to the fact that the children born to these pregnant women are generally not heavy in birth weight.
According to scientific research, children with a low birth weight have a very high probability of not growing up when they grow up.
3. Dwarfization of islands
This is a relatively unique geographical phenomenon.
Studies have shown that races that have lived on islands for a long time are generally not too tall.
This is not the result of geographical restrictions, but a kind of "self-preservation" during the evolution of the human race.
The races that live on the islands will know the limitations of the island's resources, so in the process of evolution, they will unconsciously reduce their size to reduce the frequency and quantity of resources.
And this is one of the reasons why Japanese people are generally not tall.
To sum up, the above three main reasons why the height of the Japanese has not risen but decreased in the past 30 years.
It is worth mentioning that the height of our domestic people has been going up.
ACCORDING TO STATISTICS, THE AVERAGE HEIGHT OF MEN AND WOMEN IN MAINLAND CHINA IN 2000 WAS 167.1CM AND 155.8CM RESPECTIVELY.
This year, the figures are 175.7 and 163.5.
Do you feel that the children who grew up after the 00s are generally quite tall?