Subject: | Re: Does eating red meat increase our height/muscle mass?
| Date: | Wed, 26 Dec 2007 08:25:53 GMT
| From: | "?" <Fake@sdnet.net>
| Newsgroups: | rec.running,alt.support.diet,,alt.support.fat-acceptance,uk.rec.bodybuilding
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Mary_Gordon@tvo.org wrote in news:282c46a1-9234-4205-a28d-
1bdf24dcbd0b@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
> My great grandfather (who was alive when I was a child) grew up in the
> slums of Greenock, Scotland in absolute grinding poverty - his
> stepfather was frequently unemployed, and eventually my great
> grandfather became an inmate of a charitable institution for destitute
> children called a "Ragged and Industrial School".
>
> He was 5' 3" tall as an adult, and every one of his 9 children towered
> over him, even the daughters. He was tiny from protein deficiency. He
> got very little in the way of milk, eggs, cheese or meat in his diet
> as a child.
>
> Lack of protein as a child = short stature.
>
> M.
>
You'd think all that cum he swallowed as a kid would've compensated.
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