The average male height in the United States is 5 feet 9 inches. Men in the Netherlands have the tallest average height of about 6 feet. Genetics and nutrition are key factors that influence your ...

Genetics partially influences height, but other factors, such as nutrition, also affect how tall you become as an adult. The average height of a population can indicate the health of its people since ...

NEW YORK -- If you want to see a tall population of men, go to the Netherlands. Tall women? Latvia. And in the United States, which lags behind dozens of other countries in height, the average for ...

Despite the rest of the world slowly getting taller on average over the past few thousand years, one Italian city has remained the same height since the Roman Era. According to a study, published on ...

A man with a beard and a black t-shirt measures his height with a tape measure. Genetics partially influences height, but other factors, such as nutrition, also affect how tall you become as an adult.