Chris Koester's Blog » Health http://blog.chriskoester.net Practical Computing, Privacy, Home Improvement, and a lot of what-have-yous... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:09:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The World’s Safest Table Saw http://blog.chriskoester.net/2007/02/12/the-worlds-safest-table-saw/ http://blog.chriskoester.net/2007/02/12/the-worlds-safest-table-saw/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:22:47 +0000 Chris Koester http://blog.chriskoester.net/2007/02/12/the-worlds-safest-table-saw/ A table saw will slice your fingers off in a second if you’re not paying attention. SawStop’s ingenious system prevents the loss of fingers. Go to SawStop.com for more info.

Via John Grout’s Mistake-Proofing Center

]]> http://blog.chriskoester.net/2007/02/12/the-worlds-safest-table-saw/feed/ 2 Americans Aren’t Getting Taller http://blog.chriskoester.net/2007/01/14/americans-arent-getting-taller/ http://blog.chriskoester.net/2007/01/14/americans-arent-getting-taller/#comments Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:53:18 +0000 Chris Koester http://blog.chriskoester.net/?p=82 Americans have historically grown taller as time progresses. However, this growth has been stagnant for the past 50 years. A recent article in The New Yorker titled “The Height Gap” discusses why Europeans are getting taller and Americans are not.

My interpretation of the article leads me to believe that nutrition and overall health are the biggest factors that determine a person’s height. I’m not an expert on this, and I realize that genetics also play a part – but you can make some common-sense observations after reading the article mentioned above.

Not only has the American diet of processed food crippled the country with obesity and related health problems, but healthier countries such as the Netherlands have passed us in average height.

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