Geez, I entered 310 lb and 7'6'' for Yao Ming. His BMI is 26.9 - overweight! I don't believe this BS.
91 This is going to be one sorry hangout in 40 years! Imagine thread after thread about medical ailments and bodily functions...and i shudder to think about the D&D when senility really sets in !
Lol. I'm talking about 95th percentile and taller. Also, bigger people die earlier too. I'm mean really. Go look at a retirement home. The oldest people there are generally short and skinny. It's the same way with dogs too. Small dogs live up to 15 years while large dogs only live up to 10-12 years. I recall you said you were 5'8'' ish? Don't worry. You're ok.
86 for me. If that's true, I'll have lived longer than most of my family members of the previous generations...
No, 5'11". But is that really enough...? I mean, lots of guys are taller than that. Of course, they don't live as long as women. I can understand people in a retirement home being short and skinny. You shrink as you get older, and people didn't used to grow as tall to begin with. And I found out why the old people are all skinny... because the obese people don't live long enough to get really old. One weird thing about being tall; I've always wondered if I had a tall body but a normal sized heart and lungs. It's always been easy for me to lose circulation (have a foot fall asleep, or not be able to do those exercises where you hold a weight over your head and never bring your arm back down for a long time). Usually my cardiovascular efficiency... like how fast I could swim when I was on the swim team, etc.... was not determined by muscular strength, but by how much my circulatory system could handle. I usually feel like I have the strength, but no more energy and my heart rate hits this maximum where it can't go any faster. (sometimes around 190-200... it can stay there if it wants to, but I should technically not even be alive at that point, so I know it's not safe) Hopefully this doesn't mean something bad is going to happen to me.
While it is true older people didn't grow as tall and people shrink with age (only about an inch or two), there were still plenty of people 6 feet tall back then. I haven't met a person 6 feet tall and older than 80 yet. Anyways, living to 90 isn't a big deal. I'd rather live to 80 and have a fun life than to live to 90 and be sad all the time.
A lot of the height association with longevity has to do more with blood pressure. Usually short slim women have good blood pressure levels and an unbelievably high level of HDL cholesterol. If you want to live long, then you should wish for good genes in terms of cholesterol, because eventually everyone dies of some sort of heart failure [i.e. you die when your heart stops pumping blood to the brain], and good cholesterol can only help to prevent you from having one prematurely. Everyone should get a blood test to check their cholesterol levels and get the BP checked regularly. Most people who have heart attacks don't even know they have high cholesterol and/or high blood pressure.
