Shrink Mankind, Stop Working.

According to this article in TIME Magazine children with unemployed fathers are shorter. This is probably the result of what auxologists call environmental insults like an unhealthy living situation and low quality food. The article also states that taller people are healthier people. Or to be more precise  it says is that healthier people are also taller. But this is not necessarily the same thing. Health, resulting in long life and physical and mental well being, is the result of a broad range of bodily and psychological functions. Becoming taller is one of its consequences but not necessarily the reason for being healthy.  In other words, it is not said that we can’t be smaller and healthier at the same time.