AMSTERDAM, Oct 9 ― While the rest of the world literally looks up to the Dutch, the tallest members of the loftiest populace on earth insist it's not easy being big.
“I've always struggled with my height. When I was 12, I was already the tallest in the class, also taller than my teachers,” club chairman Helen Keuken, 57, tells AFP. Even by Dutch standards they are tall, with male club members needing to measure at least 1.90m and women at least 1.80m . At the start of the 19th century the Dutch were small by European standards and only started to shoot up in the 1840s, before finally becoming the tallest with the generation born in the 1950s.
As for the shrinkage? Migration to the Netherlands is one main cause, with people from non-Western backgrounds generally being shorter, both the CBS and Stulp suggested.But migration doesn't account for everything, as growth has also “stagnated” among people with both parents born in the Netherlands, and people with both grandparents born in the Netherlands.
Humans may also have simply reached a “physiological limit”, with similar levelling off seen in other European countries, he said.“I don't see that, no,” says Nico Verhoef, 66, who is over two metres tall. “Most people have remained very tall in my view.”
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