Nadene Goldfoot
My grandfather, Nathan Abraham Goldfus/Goldfoot, was tall; at least 6 feet tall. His wife, my grandmother or Bubba, as we knew her, was very short. She had a broken leg from a pogrom in her home town of Lazdijai (Lazdey), Suwalki, Lithuania and it helped her to be shorter than normal. She had lived in Cuprum, Idaho, then Council, Idaho where she met Nathan. She was 4 foot 6 inches tall. In men and women, the sole requirement for being considered a dwarf is having an adult height under 147 cm (4 ft 10 in) and it is almost always sub-classified with respect to the underlying condition that is the cause of the short stature. My father turned out to be 5' 8" tall, pretty normal for most Jews. I had a very tall boyfriend, Sam Arnstein. He was a good 6 feet, with German or Austrian ancestry. I had another, Mort Shurkin, also about 6 feet tall, most likely Russian ancestry. I wondered at the time why they were so tall. I was only 5'4".
This was his 2nd marriage; before marrying in Dublin, Ireland to Lena Goldberg but had no children. My grandparents married in Boise, Idaho November 20, 1905. Bubba used to tell us how she had to stand on a chair to kiss him. I used to use her as a measuring tool to see how much I had grown.
Mel Brooks was 5'5" or 165 centimeters; belonging to the short people like my Bubba's family.
Why was Bubba so very short? Bones increase in length because of growth plates in the bones called epiphyses. As puberty progresses, the growth plates mature, and at the end of puberty they fuse and stop growing. Normal height ranges can vary between continents, races or ethnic groups of people, so the height of a person who is medically or socially defined as ‘short’ or ‘tall’ can be different depending on where they live or their ethnic background. Lazddijai went through more starvation days than Telsiai did, looking at their height. Bubby's siblings were all very short, showing it was also a DNA factor of height as well.
Doctor measuring height of young girl.
There are also variations in the height of each individual population, and most people who are very short or very tall are completely healthy, but just at the top or bottom end of the normal range for that particular population. A medical problem that affects growth is more likely if a child is growing slower or faster than expected.
Causes of a child growing too slowly include:
- Deficiency of thyroid hormone or growth hormone.
- Conditions where the hormones controlling growth are normal but the skeleton does not respond normally. This can be caused by, for example, Turner syndrome and achondroplasia.
- An illness that can affect growth, for example, a child with a serious gut or chest problem may grow slowly because of this.
Almost everyone who is very tall is normal and has no medical problems. Marfan syndrome and Klinefelter's syndrome can cause very tall stature, and extremely rare tumours of the pituitary gland producing too much growth hormone can result in very rapid growth (gigantism).
When Moses sent 12 spies into Canaan, they reported that the people were giants. They were very tall; taller certainly than they were. It scared them, and they didn't want to tackle attacking such people. So we can deduce that the population of Canaan, a land of many different tribal units, were tall people. They had enough of the right things to eat that their growth plates could grow and mature. The people on the Exodus, being slaves for most of the 400 previous years, were denied food needed for growth.
If you get the proper foods that go to growth, you should reach the height your genes expect you to reach. It all depends on the DNA of both your parents and what they had inherited. Starvation days, like the Holocaust, played a number on the survivors, who came out shorter than they would have.
- Beans. Beans are incredibly nutritious and an especially good source of protein ( 5 ). ...
- Chicken. Rich in protein along with a range of other essential nutrients, chicken can be an excellent addition to a healthy diet. ...
- Almonds. ...
- Leafy greens. ...
- Yogurt. ...
- Sweet potatoes. ...
- Quinoa. ...
- Eggs.
Our Jewish ancestors had only manna to eat for the 40 years ! They had started out with 603,550 and ended with 601,730 from fighting off attackers and old age of population, so had only lost 1,820. They even lost Moses who died outside the walls of Canaan just before entering.
"During the journey the Israelites murmured because of a lack of food. The Lord blessed them with manna and instructed them to gather it every morning except on the Sabbath. The children of Israel also murmured because of thirst. The Lord commanded
I can imagine this was food dropped from a spacecraft by space aliens, space food with nutrients. I can imagine this today since spacecraft, UFOs have been spotted by our pilots and that fact has been vetted. My only argument in this is that the spacecrafts could be Chinese, as our scientific community has invented many unusual items that would be important to space travel. The USA could be far more intelligent in all this that we people have not been told about. Our technology has become Far Out! When our government opens up about spacemen that they have hidden away, show us the bodies, the pictures when first discovered, then we will all get serious. I believe it now, but seeing is believing. Chinese people are very intelligent. They could be ahead of us in this. It's quite possible.
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