[gumby]

Is that true? I thought that a lot of the organs were more often than not about the same size in everyone, so the reason that tall people can appear more willowy and less tall people were more likely to be somewhat barrel shaped was simply that the latter needed to have their organs go someplace.

Also that geriatric people tend to lose height as they age while their innards are the same, thus you get a bit of spread as you get old.

But I never studied this so this may be some stray memory of something misunderstood.