Tall or Short?

Basketball stars are usually tall. The stars of other sports are sometimes short. Some of the best football players are not very tall.

Short people often have better balance than tall people, so they do not fall over very often. In some sports the players must have good balance, for example, table tennis and running.

You do not need long legs to run fast! Some of the fastest runners in the world are not very tall.

Some people are tall and some people are short. There is no medicine to make people grow or to make people smaller.

The tallest woman in the world is Sandy Allen. She is 2. 31 metres tall and lives in the United States.

The shortest person in the world is Gul Mohammed from India.

He is only 57 centimetres tall.

Today young people in many countries grow taller than their parents. This is because they eat better food today. Good food can help children grow.