[rehtona]

The reason we're eating wheat even though we're not made for it is because we could support larger populations on that versus hunting and gathering. Farming societies eventually won, even though hunters and gatherers were more healthy, because farming societies have a food surplus (which it can store), and can then afford to wage war and expand. If you look at skeletons from before and after farming, you see that hunter and gatherers were taller, had bigger brains than we have today, and were overall healthier.

[adventured]

There's zero scientific basis for the claim that height inherently has anything to do with health, such that taller people are healthier.

If that theory were correct, Asian people would be the least healthy on the planet. When in fact the people of eg Japan have been among the most healthy for thousands of years.

Caucasians - for example in Scandinavia - getting taller did not equate directly to being far healthier than their Japanese peers.

Height increases over time are driven by the type of diet consumed. The Japanese diet did not lead to height, however it did lead to health and longevity.

[armenarmen]

the height == health requires that you control for the genetics of the population.