Meanwhile already three weeks ago had a scientific study made it into the news. Not into science news, but into the ordinary news. This topic obviously doesn’t seem urgent to me, but it still is interesting. The study was on the different health risks of humans of different size. Women usually are less tall than men, but the study compared only women to women and men to men. Tall humans have more often problems with veins and nerves. This is mainly dependent on the length of the limbs. Heart problems occur less frequently in tall humans. Bigger humans have more body cells and hence more often get tumors. Smaller humans instead have more often problems with the heart and also more often suffer from diabetes.

I think this study is interesting for two reasons. On the one hand this is very simply statistics and could always have been done. But it was done in 2022. On the other hand martial artists and combat sportsmen have always had to adapt to opponents of different sizes and different builds. Hence strengths and weaknesses of the different human bodies are known. Ancient Greek medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine have already since millennia divided the different builds of human bodies systematically. So how could a simple correlation to certain diseases have to wait until 2022 A.D.?

(I of course know the answer: This kind of research is cheap and simple, so it still can be done in the era of the end of science. More complicated and more expensive research is hardly done anymore.)