The biggest people on the planet

Humanity likes to make different ratings in all areas of its life. "Best comedies about love", "The most terrible books", "The most reliable car brands". Any unusual representatives of the human race are interesting to us. The highest and heaviest, fastest and most hairy, smallest and most terrible people on the planet are analyzed, measured and counted.

For example, it is known that the largest people on Earth live in Holland - the average growth of the inhabitants of this country is 185 centimeters. But we are talking about a state in which only 100 years ago, when recruiting into the army, every fourth rookie was rejected, since it was below the required 157 centimeters in height. Moreover, even people who immigrated to the Netherlands from other parts of the world were on average higher than representatives of their racial groups in their home countries.

True, some sources claim that the largest people live on the African continent: in Kenya, Samoa or Tanzania. But this is relevant, if we are talking about individual groups of the population. And if we take the average growth in the country, then the palm tree is still the Dutch. Scientists believe that the reason for this lies in the genetics of this people, high level of medicine and nutrition, rich in proteins of animal origin.

Of course, many residents of the country significantly exceed the average growth. There are also those who reach 2 meters 13 centimeters in height. In everyday life such giants experience considerable inconvenience. Therefore, the largest people in the Netherlands joined together in a special "party" and achieved that building organizations increased doorways, and automobile companies changed the standards of car interiors.

In the Ancient World, the highest were the Romans, two past centuries, the palm of primacy was held by Americans, who today are growing more in breadth than up. True, "the thickest country on the planet" the US can not be called. In the ranking in 2010, they took only 8th place in the world. But 79% of the population in the States are overweight. The largest people (in terms of weight) live in a tiny country Nauru. 95% of the population of this state have a body mass index of more than 25. This is not surprising, because a small island in the Pacific has long existed a tradition, according to which girls from noble families were kept in confinement and specially fattened. Today, the fat content of the population contributes to the changed nature of nutrition. Earlier, the islanders ate fish and fruits, and now - refined and modified products pouring from the West.

While we were talking about statistical data. And who are the record holders for height and weight? What is the biggest man ever lived on Earth? In English sources write that it was an American Robert Wadlow, whose growth was 272 centimeters. We can be proud of the Slavic giant Fedor Makhnov. A native of a small farm located near the Belarusian Vitebsk, he lived in the late XIX - early XX centuries. According to Polish anthropologists, his growth was 285 centimeters. The thickest man on the planet weighed 635 kilograms and lived in the twentieth century. It was an American named John Brower Minnock.

Unfortunately, people with serious health problems are champions of growth and weight. Perhaps they would gladly agree to give up such dubious leadership.