Abstract:In the past half century, children in Japan and South Korea grew rapidly in height by 2 cm per decade. Children in
Japan ceased to grow any taller in the mid-1990s, whereas Korean peers kept growing and overtook the Japanese 3
cm in the mid-2000s and then stopped. In the 1990s, when Koreans caught-up the Japanese in height, per capita
caloric supply from animal products in Korea was 150 kcal/day less than in Japan. When Korean children stopped
growing in height in the mid-2000s, per capita supply of animal pro… Show more
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