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.