Posted on 02/07/2011 5:39:15 PM PST by NormsRevenge
This one is way past the+BS part, whoever wrote is a ravening loon.
No big shock. Coal is loaded with heavy metals, its burning indoors limits oxygen availability (both by reducing oxygen levels and by blocking binding sites with carbon monoxide), etc.
/johnny
Oh? Or maybe if all you can afford is coal, you don’t buy quite as much expensive animal protein?
Oh give me a freakin break!
All my uncles and aunts were raised in a house heated with coal and they were all at least 6’ 3”.....
Well, it could easily be a mere correlation, where less affluent homes could afford only poorer nutrition and poorer heating options, or it might be spurious, but there are also many reasons it could be valid.
I have to wonder what the diet is for these children.
Think of how tall they would have been if they’d burned wood!
I’m in my late 70’s-—female-—5’6” for most of my life. Brother 6”.
Raised with coal heat and near tracks with filthy trains spewing soot all over the place.
Studies like this make me laugh.
I’m surprised they don’t pass a law to make
EVERYONE burn coal so we’d all be the same height.
True enough, we’re taller than previous generations for a whole lot of reasons. Cleaner air in the home is likely one of those reasons.
When I was a teenager we took the old coal furnace that sat in my great grandmothers basement and made it into a wood furnace at our house.
“...Did they take into account dietary differences...”
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Of course not.
But give them another few million dollars in research grants,
and maybe they will study that for several more years.
...and cell phones powered by coal stoves are DOUBLY dangerous!
Well, I’ve got a wood stove sitting right here in my study, keeping this end of the house warm. I’d rather cut wood myself, or pay my neighbors to cut it, than pay some Arab sheikh for oil so he can use the money to spread sharia.
When my family and I spent a year in England back in the 1970s, we rented a house near Cambridge that had no central heat. We lit a soft coal fire in the fireplace and all sat around it on cold evenings. It was a very nice house, owned by the Master of John’s College, who didn’t need it since he lived in at the college.
No central heat. A small gas boiler in the upstairs bathroom closet so you could have a hot bath. We survived, nicely.
Now I know why I was a skinny old kid, it was that coal and hot dogs and cheap balony from "save alot" while I was a kid, I'm still the runt of the litter but I've got a big gut so that must be the cheap McDoubles at McDonalds.
Same here 6’ weight 180; the day I got out of basic.
Aha! See??!! They could have been at least 6' 3.5" had they not used coal!
I'll call this a load of BS. They already have ready made test and control groups. Why go through this?
East Germany, and I'm sure most of the Warsaw Pact used to burn soft, brown coal. You could walk the streets of East Berlin and they would just pile it up on the corners in front of the buildings.
This crap was so bad that in the winter when the winds were still or fog enveloped the city walking around East Berlin would fill your nose with black, crusty boogers. Imagine living like that.
Anyhow, point is look at folks born in 1970 in East Germany and compare them to folks born after reunification when the enormous amounts of pollution left by the Communists were cleaned up.
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