Not ham in particular, but high protein availability and nourishment. Not for just wealthy people. For most people. That’s not discounting poverty in any country.

[–] DrunkenPirate@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The volume of proteins doesn’t explains it. The US eats by far more meat than durch people: 144 to 91 kg.

Check here https://ourworldindata.org/meat-production You can filter by everthing and select same countries as in this graph.

The dutch heights seem to be a genetic preference as well. Germans eat somehow the same mix with a little less seafood. Btw Germans in the Northern parts - close to Netherlands are quite tall in general. May be seafood.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Crazy! Did the small chinese hight come from malnourishment or hard labor? Otherwise that increase would be hard to describe right?

[–] fiat_lux@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Better quality of nutrition - more protein and vegetables. Much more vegetables. An absurd amount more vegetables.

They also fixed their zinc deficiency, which has long been known to affect height.

But seriously, the vegetables.

Graphs pictured:

[–] eodur@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Wow. I need to upy vegetable game.

[–] Ja7sh_The_Donkey@piefed.social -1 points 4 hours ago

German man is taller than me. That's sad ;(

[–] KaKi87@jlai.lu -3 points 4 hours ago

What a weird set of countries.