Why Japan's Average Height Stopped Growing While Korea, China Surged

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This study analyzes the reasons why the average height of Japanese people has stagnated since the 1990s. The Nikkei newspaper explains the cause of the gap with Korea and China by citing nutritional deficiencies resulting from a culture of eating small amounts of food, the birth of low-birth-weight babies due to strict weight management by pregnant women, and the short sleep duration of infants and toddlers as major factors.

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(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Correspondent Cho Seong-mi = As the average height of Koreans and Chinese increases, but the average height of Japanese people has remained stagnant since the 1990s, the reason...

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The reasons why the average height of Koreans and Chinese is increasing while the average height of Japanese people has remained stagnant since the 1990s include insufficient energy intake and low birth weight infants.