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From timc@2ubh.com Wed Aug 28 10:54:30 2002
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:28:35 +0100
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Subject: [zzzzteana] Height, weight, girth, etc
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,781616,00.html
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Britons stand tall, if slightly heavy, in Europe
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John Carvel, social affairs editor
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Wednesday August 28, 2002
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The Guardian
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Not every European dimension has been harmonised in Brussels yet. According
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to the Department for Trade and Industry, the average Briton stands head,
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shoulders, girth and bottoms above their continental partners.
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The figures come in a new edition of the department's handbook of
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anthropometric and strength measurements, compiled by ergonomists at the
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University of Nottingham to help manufacturers design products to fit
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people's shape.
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The volume provides 294 measurements ranging from the distance between the
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inner corners of the eyes to the length of the leg between the crease below
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the buttock to the crease at the back of the knee.
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It has discovered that the average British man is 36 millimetres (1 inches)
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taller than his French counterpart.
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The mean height of UK citizens is 1,755.1mm (5ft 9in). Among European men
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only the Dutch are taller, averaging 1,795mm and with a clear height
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advantage over the US men's average of 1,760.4.
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The average British woman is 1,620mm tall (just under 5ft 4in), compared
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with 1,604mm for her French counterpart, 1,610mm for the Italians and
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1,619mm for the Germans. Swedish women average 1,640mm, Dutch 1,650mm and
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Americans 1,626.7mm
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More disturbingly, British men and women are heavier than all the other
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nationalities except the Americans, averaging 79.75 kilos for British men
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and 66.7 for women.
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The average British woman has a chest measurement of 1,007.8mm (39.7
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inches), compared with 965mm for the Italians, 912.6mm for the Japanese and
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806mm for Sri Lankans. American women also top this scale with an average of
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1,047.2mm.
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The average British woman's waist is 840.6mm (33 inches) - also second
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largest behind the Americans. But her bottom at 873.7mm is considerably
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smaller than the Italians at 916mm who beat the Americans into second place.
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The average British male foot is 266.8mm long (10.5 inches), 6mm longer than
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the French and Germans, 3mm more than the Italians and 1mm more than the
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Swedes. But they are just beaten by the Americans at 267.8mm and massively
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outstripped by the Dutch at 275mm.
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However Dutch women have daintier feet than the British, averaging 240mm
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compared with 241.1mm in the UK (9.5 inches). German women average 242mm,
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compared with 245mm for the Swedes and 242.1mm for the Americans.
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The DTI has a less than exhaustive record of ring finger lengths, but on the
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available evidence the British man's finger at 78.7mm (3.1 inches) is 1.7mm
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longer than his German counterpart, but 0.2mm shorter than the American
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average.
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The British woman's ring finger at 72.6mm is 0.4mm smaller than her German
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counterpart and 0.3mm smaller than the American.
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Beverley Norris, research fellow at Nottingham university's institute for
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occupational ergonomics, said the figures were useful for product designers.
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The department has recently completed a study of the pulling force needed to
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open ring pull cans.
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