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by curlywhirrly on October 20th, 2004

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What is the relationship between height and shoe size?

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  • by Gari on July 23rd, 2008

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    "There is a closer relationship between shoe size and limb size than there is between shoe size and overall height. Unless something has interrupted normal patterns of growth, then the length of the foot from heel to tip of the big toe is exactly the length of the forearm between the inside of the elbow and the bend of the wrist. This has to do with how limb growth is genetically "balanced".

    Limb growth is related to overall body length in a slightly more complicated fashion, as it is very sensitive to nutrition. The length of the torso is generally determined more by genes than nutrition, but the length of the limbs is only partly genetic, and is partly due to the quality of diet and amount of protein that the mother gets while the individual is developing in the womb."
    So true the length of your forearm (surprisingly) is exactly the same length as your foot (unless you have some kinda of growth disorder like acromegaly/gigantism). and people who have longer arms and legs (relatively) generally have bigger (longer) hands and feet as well!

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    • I have a friend who suffers from Marfan's (sp.?) Syndrome, and his forearm and foot length are perfectly correlated. I believe that this correlation always holds despite genetic disorders (dwarfism/giantism), and only deviates in the presence of developmental growth disorders.

      DPER

      by DPER on February 15th, 2010

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