Janet, Evidently, you are referring mostly to statistics within England/Scotland. I am referring to my own family and to other famlies of these counties Stormont/Glengarry, wherein, on average, the people [especially of 'Scotch [highland] descent' ]seemed to be much taller than those I saw within England/Scotland on my visits. I am short by heredity from some short ancestor [ probably my German], not by nutrition. Heredity is part of history. My grandmother Cameron, born 1854, a cousin to her husband, was tall [by heredity]. Margaret Cameron Long Sault Ontario