Humanity loves to make various ratings in all areas of its life. “The best comedies about love”, “The scariest books”, “The most reliable car brands”. We are also interested in any unusual representatives of the human race. The highest and heaviest, the fastest and most hairy, the smallest and scariest people on the planet are analyzed, measured and counted.
For example, it is known that the largest people on Earth live in Holland - the average growth of the inhabitants of this country is 185 centimeters. But we are talking about a state in which, only 100 years ago, when recruiting for the army, every fourth recruit was rejected, as he was below the required 157 centimeters in height. Moreover, even people who immigrated to the Netherlands from other parts of the world turned out to be on average higher than the representatives of their racial groups in their native countries.
True, some sources claim that the largest people live on the African continent: in Kenya, Samoa or Tanzania. But this is true when it comes to individual population groups. And if we take the average growth in the country, then the Dutch still have the palm. Scientists believe that the reason for this lies in the genetics of this people, a high level of medicine and nutrition, rich in proteins of animal origin.
Of course, many residents of the country significantly exceed average growth. There are those who reach 2 meters 13 centimeters in height. In everyday life, such giants experience considerable inconvenience. Therefore, the largest people in Holland united in a special "party" and managed to ensure that construction companies increase doorways, and car companies change the standards of car interiors.
In the Ancient World, the Romans were the tallest, two past centuries the Americans held the palm, which today grow more in breadth than up. True, the United States cannot be called the "fattest country on the planet." In the ranking in 2010, they took only 8th place in the world. But 79% of the population in the States is overweight. The largest people (in terms of weight) live in the tiny country of Nauru. 95% of the population of this state have a body mass index of more than 25. This is not surprising, because a tradition has long existed on a small island in the Pacific Ocean, according to which girls from noble families were kept locked up and specially fed. Today, the changing nature of nutrition contributes to the fat content of the population. The islanders used to eat fish and fruits, but now they have refined and modified foods that rush from the West.
While we were talking about statistics. And who are the champions in height and weight? What is the largest man ever lived on earth? In English-speaking sources they write that it was an American Robert Wadlow, whose growth was 272 centimeters. We can be proud of the Slavic giant Fedor Makhnov. A native of a small farm located near the Belarusian Vitebsk, lived in the late XIX - early XX centuries. According to Polish anthropologists, his height was 285 centimeters. The fattest man on the planet weighed 635 kilograms and lived in the twentieth century. It was an American named John Brower Minnock.
Unfortunately, people with serious health problems become champions in height and weight. Perhaps they would gladly agree to abandon such dubious leadership.
