Height

Have you tried this? You know the way we all sat in math class in school wondering when we were going to use most of it in real life? Well apparently you can determine the height your child is going to grow up to be using a little bit of adding and division and we […]

4 years ago

I am, what my friends like to call ‘vertically challenged’. I have always been the short friend, the ‘cute one’, the one who has to sit on someone’s lap when the car is full. It is simply my lot in life never to be able to reach the elusive high shelf. My daughter, you, on […]

5 years ago

Could the length of your legs determine how long your pregnancy lasts? Some scientists certainly seem to think so. In fact, researchers believe that the shorter a pregnant woman is, the shorter her pregnancy will be. Can it really be true though? Can our height really impact our baby’s due date? A study published in […]

5 years ago

Oh, the irony! Many of us are familiar with statuesque Ava Michelle from her lead role in popular Netflix series Tall Girl but what many don’t know is that it wasn’t her first TV appearance. In fact not only was the 6 foot 2 beauty on TV before but she was actually kicked off of […]

7 years ago

The study was conducted on 3,000 women. It’s long been said that the size of the mother could impact upon the size of the baby. A smaller woman having a smaller baby does indeed make sense, but research is now suggesting that height could also determine gestation time. The intriguing study, published in PLOS Medicine, was […]

8 years ago

Ever wondered just how tall your little one will grow? Well, a mathematical formula unearthed by the New York Times claims to be able to predict it fairly accurately.  While environmental factors such as diet and nutrition have an impact on the adult height a child will eventually achieve, a whopping 70 per cent of […]

10 years ago