{"id":214495,"date":"2023-09-18T20:59:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T20:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=214495"},"modified":"2023-09-18T20:59:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T20:59:05","slug":"kids-from-loving-families-are-more-likely-to-grow-tall-like-peter-crouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/world-news\/kids-from-loving-families-are-more-likely-to-grow-tall-like-peter-crouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids ‘from loving families’ are more likely to grow tall like Peter Crouch"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kids who are brought up in loving families are more likely to be tall like Peter Crouch, boffins say.<\/p>\n
Scientist Barry Bogin reckons it is not just genes, diet or exercise that can make people grow huge like the former footie star.<\/p>\n
The biological anthropologist says kids who have happy childhoods are less likely to have stun-ted growth.<\/p>\n
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Prof Bogin, of Loughborough University, said: \u201cThe human species requires strong social and emotional attachments, that is love, between younger and older people, and people of all ages.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThese attachments are required to promote nearly all biological functions, such as food digestion and absorption into the body, a good immune system, and an overall happiness and positive outlook on life.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that not being loved by those nearest causes \u201ctoxic emotional stress\u201d which can block the hormones that help to boost growth.<\/p>\n
It comes after the secret to evolution was apparently unlocked by a 33-year experiment involving yeast.<\/p>\n
Boffins are continuing an experiment started in 1988 involving yeast being swirled in water before some is removed and the process repeated – and mutations have started to form.<\/p>\n
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The yeast started turning into "snowflake yeast", which means the scientists were producing genetically identical cells in each pot. The yeast also became multicellular.<\/p>\n
Will Ratcliffe, who started the experiment, told the New York Times: "All of the lineages that we know of that evolved multicellularity, they made this step hundreds of millions of years ago, and we don\u2019t have a lot of information about how single cells form groups."<\/p>\n
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