Tom T. Samaras
Reventropy Associates
Tom Samaras, Reventropy Associates
Tom’s book with Bartke and Rollo, Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling, was described as “A Herculean” task accomplished” in a review by professor S. Marson in a publication by the Cambridge University Press. See book reviews for more information.
This book is written for the general reader of scientific books. It provides an overview of how growth and height are related to nutrition, physical performance, health, intelligence, pollution, resource consumption and the environment. It also covers the economic benefits of avoiding increased body size.
Editorial Article
Important Publications
Many papers have provided reasons for why women live longer than men. These include XX vs. XY chromosomes, sex hormones, and better care of their health. These factors certainly can affect male and female health, but none of these factors has been proven to explain the actual difference that exists in life expectancy between the sexes. However, a factor commonly ignored is the size difference between men and women. Past research has shown that differences in male and female height and associated life expectancy are related by similar but inverse percentages (such as 8% taller and 9% shorter life expectancy). A new paper provides comprehensive evidence that supports early findings that shorter height is a major factor in explaining why women live longer. To test the inverse relation between height and life expectancy, a list of 30 developed countries was used to compare height and life expectancy differences between men and women. The results showed men were 7.8% taller and had an 8.5% lower life expectancy. These results are similar to previous study findings in 1992, 2003, and 2009. They are also consistent with scores of studies showing shorter or smaller body size is related to lower mortality and greater longevity. VIEW HERE
The above findings are consistent with over 100 studies showing shorter, smaller individuals tend to have lower chronic disease and mortality and live longer. Numerous biological and related factors support these findings.
Observations on Body Size by Other Scientists
Observations by various scientists on human height or body size are given below. Only a few are presented out of a list of 119 similar comments.
“...the smaller the mean height at age 18 in a province, the higher the chance for people living there to reach high chronological ages.” My note: based on about 1.3 million deaths.
Source: Holzenberger et al. Decelerated growth and longevity in men. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 1991, 13, 89-101
“It seems that being bigger, and presumably better, comes with very high costs.” [The costs he is referring to are higher levels of cancer and heart disease.]
Source: p. 102 Campbell & Campbell. The China Study. 2006, Benbella, Texas.
“Smaller individuals of the same species, including humans, also tend to live longer.” p.572
Source: de Magalhaes JP and Faragher RGA. Cell divisions and mammalian aging: integrative biology insights from genes that regulate longevity. BioEssays 2008, 30, 567-578.
Aims of “Reventropy Associates”
Reventropy Associates was established in 1993 to focus on the ramifications of a world population that is constantly increasing in height and body weight. While many researchers have delved into specific areas of human height and growth, none has been devoted to the systematic evaluation of this critical area of human civilization.
Tom Samaras founded Reventropy Associates and has worked with Harold Elrick, MD, Lowell H. Storms, PhD and Jonn Desnoes, MD, PhD, OMD, Andrzej Bartke, PhD, David Rollo, Ph.D, Stephen Marson, PhD, John Lillis, PhD, and Geoffrey Cannon (former Director of Science, World Cancer Research Fund) to provide critical analyses of the various impacts of larger body size on our society and the earth.He has focused on how our society promotes larger human size through nutritional and health systems. Tom and his associates have examined the impact of maternal and child nutrition, birth weight, rapid growth, early sexual maturation and attaining maximum height on long-term health and longevity. The findings of his research have been published in numerous papers world wide and two books are shown below:
“The Truth about Your Height” is now available on Amazon’s Kindle, 2020
Tom has appeared in “Who’s Who in America” for 15 years!
“Who’s Who in America” endeavors to profile the leaders of American society; those men and women who are influencing their nation’s development.
“These findings support an adverse effect of relative “over-nutriton” in infancy on long-term cardiovascular disease risk……and do not support the promotion of faster weight gain in infants born small for gestational age.”
A new article in Carnegie Council for Ethics
Publications of Interest
Wilhelmsen and colleagues tracked 67-year old men to 90 years of age and found that men who were shorter at 67 years tended to have better survival than taller men. See page 8 in Wilhelmsen L, Svardsudd K, Eriksson H, et al. Factors associated with reaching 90 years of age: a study of men born in 1913 in Gothenburg, Sweden. J Intern Med 2011; 269:441-451. Doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2010.02331
An Article in the Indian Heart Journal
Tom’s review of research findings on the health risks related to higher birth weight, rapid growth, early maturation and taller stature was recently published in the Women’s Health Bulletin. See: Samaras TT. Health risks of higher birth weight, rapid growth, early maturation and taller height. Women’s Health Bulletin. 2015 July; 2(3):e26805
An Italian Study Confirms Tom’s findings
Important findings from Sardinia show that shorter people live longer. The new study, authored by Salaris, Poulain and Samaras was recently published by the journal Biodemography and Social Biology.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is responsible for 126,000 deaths per year. A large Harvard study found that good nutrition can help you avoid this disease. For example, fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fish promote healthy lungs and reduce the risk. In contrast, refined grains, red meat, and cured meats increase the risk.
Source: Harvard Men’s Health Watch, 2010, vol 14, No. 7, pp 1-3.
Tom Samaras, Reventropy Associates
Tom’s book with Bartke and Rollo, Human Body Size and the Laws of Scaling, was described as “A Herculean” task accomplished” in a review by professor S. Marson in a publication by the Cambridge University Press. See book reviews for more information.
This book is written for the general reader of scientific books. It provides an overview of how growth and height are related to nutrition, physical performance, health, intelligence, pollution, resource consumption and the environment. It also covers the economic benefits of avoiding increased body size.
Editorial Article
Important Publications
Many papers have provided reasons for why women live longer than men. These include XX vs. XY chromosomes, sex hormones, and better care of their health. These factors certainly can affect male and female health, but none of these factors has been proven to explain the actual difference that exists in life expectancy between the sexes. However, a factor commonly ignored is the size difference between men and women. Past research has shown that differences in male and female height and associated life expectancy are related by similar but inverse percentages (such as 8% taller and 9% shorter life expectancy). A new paper provides comprehensive evidence that supports early findings that shorter height is a major factor in explaining why women live longer. To test the inverse relation between height and life expectancy, a list of 30 developed countries was used to compare height and life expectancy differences between men and women. The results showed men were 7.8% taller and had an 8.5% lower life expectancy. These results are similar to previous study findings in 1992, 2003, and 2009. They are also consistent with scores of studies showing shorter or smaller body size is related to lower mortality and greater longevity. VIEW HERE
The above findings are consistent with over 100 studies showing shorter, smaller individuals tend to have lower chronic disease and mortality and live longer. Numerous biological and related factors support these findings.
Observations on Body Size by Other Scientists
Observations by various scientists on human height or body size are given below. Only a few are presented out of a list of 119 similar comments.
“...the smaller the mean height at age 18 in a province, the higher the chance for people living there to reach high chronological ages.” My note: based on about 1.3 million deaths.
Source: Holzenberger et al. Decelerated growth and longevity in men. Arch Gerontol Geriatr 1991, 13, 89-101
“It seems that being bigger, and presumably better, comes with very high costs.” [The costs he is referring to are higher levels of cancer and heart disease.]
Source: p. 102 Campbell & Campbell. The China Study. 2006, Benbella, Texas.
“Smaller individuals of the same species, including humans, also tend to live longer.” p.572
Source: de Magalhaes JP and Faragher RGA. Cell divisions and mammalian aging: integrative biology insights from genes that regulate longevity. BioEssays 2008, 30, 567-578.
Aims of “Reventropy Associates”
Reventropy Associates was established in 1993 to focus on the ramifications of a world population that is constantly increasing in height and body weight. While many researchers have delved into specific areas of human height and growth, none has been devoted to the systematic evaluation of this critical area of human civilization.
Tom Samaras founded Reventropy Associates and has worked with Harold Elrick, MD, Lowell H. Storms, PhD and Jonn Desnoes, MD, PhD, OMD, Andrzej Bartke, PhD, David Rollo, Ph.D, Stephen Marson, PhD, John Lillis, PhD, and Geoffrey Cannon (former Director of Science, World Cancer Research Fund) to provide critical analyses of the various impacts of larger body size on our society and the earth.He has focused on how our society promotes larger human size through nutritional and health systems. Tom and his associates have examined the impact of maternal and child nutrition, birth weight, rapid growth, early sexual maturation and attaining maximum height on long-term health and longevity. The findings of his research have been published in numerous papers world wide and two books are shown below:
“The Truth about Your Height” is now available on Amazon’s Kindle, 2020
Tom has appeared in “Who’s Who in America” for 15 years!
“Who’s Who in America” endeavors to profile the leaders of American society; those men and women who are influencing their nation’s development.
“These findings support an adverse effect of relative “over-nutriton” in infancy on long-term cardiovascular disease risk……and do not support the promotion of faster weight gain in infants born small for gestational age.”
A new article in Carnegie Council for Ethics
Publications of Interest
Wilhelmsen and colleagues tracked 67-year old men to 90 years of age and found that men who were shorter at 67 years tended to have better survival than taller men. See page 8 in Wilhelmsen L, Svardsudd K, Eriksson H, et al. Factors associated with reaching 90 years of age: a study of men born in 1913 in Gothenburg, Sweden. J Intern Med 2011; 269:441-451. Doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2010.02331
An Article in the Indian Heart Journal
Tom’s review of research findings on the health risks related to higher birth weight, rapid growth, early maturation and taller stature was recently published in the Women’s Health Bulletin. See: Samaras TT. Health risks of higher birth weight, rapid growth, early maturation and taller height. Women’s Health Bulletin. 2015 July; 2(3):e26805
An Italian Study Confirms Tom’s findings
Important findings from Sardinia show that shorter people live longer. The new study, authored by Salaris, Poulain and Samaras was recently published by the journal Biodemography and Social Biology.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is responsible for 126,000 deaths per year. A large Harvard study found that good nutrition can help you avoid this disease. For example, fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fish promote healthy lungs and reduce the risk. In contrast, refined grains, red meat, and cured meats increase the risk.
Source: Harvard Men’s Health Watch, 2010, vol 14, No. 7, pp 1-3.