Tell me honestly, are you satisfied with your own height or have you always dreamed of being at least a little taller? According to statistics, 58% of the world's population, and especially the fairer sex, are extremely concerned about their height and constantly strive to measure and change it. We don't have a magic wand to magically give you the desired centimeters, but how about a little experiment?
Answer 5 simple questions, and the editors "So simple!" In one or two seconds he can figure out how tall you are! No magic, we promise.
How to find out your height
- Are you a man or a woman?
1 - man
2 - woman
3 - I won’t tell - Do you often hear comments about your height?
1 - yes, all the time
2 - no one pays attention to my height
3 - sometimes - What do people think about your age?
1 - they consider me older
2 - my appearance corresponds to my age
3 - they think I'm younger - Are you taller than your mother?
1 - yes, definitely higher
2 - my mother and I are the same height
3 - no, I'm shorter than my mother - Would you like to change your height?
1 - would reduce a few centimeters
2 - I am satisfied with my height
3 - yes, I would like to be a little taller
Hurry up, count the points and compare the results! Well, did it coincide?
Result
Surprisingly, scientists have found that short people(below 167 cm) are 36% more likely to develop dementia than those whose height is 177 cm and above. Tall people are less likely to develop cardiovascular disease and are statistically happier. Short stature, in turn, protects against cancer: every additional 10 cm of height increases the development of cancer by 17% in women and by 5% in the stronger sex.
Unfortunately, we are not given the opportunity to choose our own height, as well as skin color, the presence or absence of freckles. Affects human height surrounding ecology, heredity, age, gender and nationality. However, there are a number of effective recommendations that will help at least a little!
Each of us is familiar with this situation: we urgently need to find out a person’s height, but we don’t have a tape measure, ruler or other measuring tools at hand. In this article we will share with you little household tricks on how to measure height using the most unexpected objects.
When there is nothing at hand
When you have absolutely nothing, but your legs and arms are always with you. Although we are all different, however, there are some parts of the human body that are relatively the same size for all people.
Measure the nail phalanx on your index finger. For most people, it is equal to the standard English inch, that is, 2.5 cm. For larger measurements, you can measure the length of your own foot. A medium-sized foot is equal in length to the classic English foot - 30.5 cm. Having these two basic values, you can find out your own height, at least in approximate values.
How to correctly measure a person's height? To do this, you need to take off your shoes, stand with your back to a wall or other vertical surface, touching it with your calves, buttocks, back and back of your head. Measure your height by placing a flat object (for example, a book) on your head so that it touches the wall and is strictly horizontal.
When you have something at hand
How to measure your height using ordinary things? The best option may be a checkered notebook sheet. Everyone probably knows that the size of the cells is 5 mm.
Russian paper banknotes have the following dimensions in length: denominations 10 - 500 rubles - 150 mm, 1 thousand - 5 thousand rubles - 157 mm. The length of a Russian citizen's passport is 125 mm, that is, 8 passports will equal 1 meter. Our “famous” faceted glass is 90 mm in height and 65 mm in diameter.
Modern coins can also provide you with invaluable assistance. The diameter of 5 Soviet kopecks and 5 Russian rubles is 25 mm. The 2 ruble coin has 23 mm. The ruble coin is 20.5 mm, and 50 kopecks are 19.5 mm in diameter. The difference between a ruble and a fifty-kopeck piece is 1 mm, and their sum will be 40 mm.
How to measure a dog's height
Correctly, the height of a dog or cat can only be measured with a special stadiometer. For this procedure, they are placed directly on a flat and stable surface, for example, on a table.
Determine where the animal's withers are. When the dog stands calmly, this will be the highest point of the back. The withers are formed in the dorsal region by the first five vertebrae. Visually, it (the withers) is defined as a slight elevation between the dog’s back and its neck.
To eliminate mistakes with the level of the withers, place a notebook or thin book on the dog’s back. Then you release the animal and measure the distance between the table and the book. Alternatively, the dog's height can be measured against the wall, placing a hard notebook perpendicular to it or making a mark with a pencil.
Research Project How to measure your height? Completed by: 8th grade students of KGKSKOU SKSHI VIII type No. 12 in Vyazemsky Supervisor: mathematics teacher Antonova N.A.
Introduction During an elective lesson, the teacher suggested we watch the cartoon “38 Parrots”, where a boa constrictor measured his height in monkeys, elephants and parrots. We wondered how you can measure a person's height? What measures of length were used in the old days?
Purpose of the work: Consider ancient measures of length. Find out their origin. Measure your height. Compare your height with other length measures.
What did we do? In order to find out what length measures for measuring height were used in the old days, we turned to Internet materials and books. It turned out that there is very little literature devoted to this issue. But nevertheless, we learned something. In the old days, 2 ways of fully expressing height were used for a person: 1. A combination of height - elbows, spans. 2. Combination of height - arshin, vershkov.
Ancient measures of length Ancient measures of length Metric measures of length 1 finger 2 cm 1 inch 2.54 cm 1 vershok 4.4 cm 1 small span 18 cm 1 large span 22 - 23 cm 1 cubit 38 - 46 cm 1 arshin 71 cm 1 step 70 cm 1 fly fathom 1m 76 cm 1 oblique fathom 248 cm 1 verst 124000 cm 1 mile 7.468 km 1 line 2.54 mm
Ancient measures of length Elbow is a native ancient Russian measure of length, known already in the 11th century. The value of the Old Russian cubit was obtained from a comparison of measurements in the Jerusalem Temple made by Abbot Daniel, and later measurements of the same dimensions in an exact copy of this temple - in the main temple of the New Jerusalem Monastery on the Istra River (XVII century). The cubit was widely used in trade as a particularly convenient measure. In the retail trade of canvas, cloth, and linen, the cubit was the main measure. From the 16th century it was gradually replaced by the arshin and in the 19th century. almost never used.
Ancient length measures
Ancient measures of length Arshin is an ancient Russian measure of length, equal, in modern terms, to 0.7112 m. The root “AR” in the word a r sh i n - in the Old Russian language (and in other neighboring ones) means “EARTH”, “surface of the earth”. When determining the height of a person or animal, counting was carried out after two arshins (mandatory for a normal adult).
Ancient length measures The name “VERSHOK” comes from the word “top”. The vershok was equal to 1/16 of an arshin. In modern terms, 4.44 cm.
Ancient measures of length Pyad (pyadnitsa) is an ancient Russian measure of length. Small span - the distance between the ends of the spread thumb and index fingers = 17.78 cm. Large span - the distance between the ends of the thumb and little finger (22-23 cm). A span with a somersault is a span with the addition of two joints of the index finger = 27-31 cm. Our old icon painters measured the size of icons in spans: “nine icons - seven spans.” Icon "St. George the Great" four spans.
Ancient measures of length Sazhen - dating back to the 11th century. The name comes from the word “to acquire”, i.e. reach for something. Hence the word “unattainable” - about a place where it is impossible to reach, about a person whose merits cannot be repeated. There were two types of fathoms: fly and oblique.
Our growth in different measures F.I. section Height, cm Fingers Inch Vershok Elbow Arshin Small span Vasilyeva Stesha 153 76.5 60 34 3.8 2.15 8.5 Rychkova Maria 163 81.5 64 37 4 2.2 9 Dmitrieva Ksenia 164 82 64 37 4 ,1 2.3 9.1 Shchetinin Mikhail 181 90.5 71 41 4.5 2.54 10 Tsios Vladimir 162 81 63 36 4.05 2.28 9 Dubina Tatyana 151 75.5 59 34 3.7 2.12 8.3 Kunitsa Tatyana 157 78.5 61 35 3.9 2.2 8.7 Lukashik Evgeniy 172 86 67 39 4.3 2.42 9 Kompasov Alexander 163 81.5 64 37 4 2.2 9
Average height of 8th grade students cm inch arshin finger vershok cubit small span 162 63.6 2.26 81.4 36.6 40 8.95
Conclusion Of course, human height has never been measured in parrots. All calculations of our height are in ancient length measures. But in modern life you cannot use approximate measures. Accurate knowledge is required. For example, in construction and other fields of science. Therefore, ancient Russian measures of length are no longer used; a transition has been made to the metric system of calculation, which is more accurate.
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website has prepared a simple way to independently measure whether your weight is normal, regardless of body composition and the ratio of muscle and fat mass.
Some believe that you need to check whether your weight is normal by measuring your body mass index, which is defined as:
BMI = weight in kilograms / square of height in meters.
In fact, another method is more reliable - measuring a person’s height and waist circumference, because with the same BMI indicators, a person can have either a fit, athletic body or be obese. This is because the places where fat is distributed are not taken into account. And the most dangerous thing is abdominal fat.
By the way, these are the indicators used by the World Health Organization.
How to measure height correctly
It is better to measure your height in the morning to get a more accurate result. During the day, the spine may become compressed.
We will need: centimeter or tape measure, pencil, book, mirror.
- Choose a place where you can stand with your back to a wall, preferably next to a doorway. This way you can guide the measuring tape with minimal error. The floor must be hard, level, without baseboards or carpet.
- Straighten up and stand so that your head, shoulders, back, buttocks and heels touch the wall.
- Place a book on your head so that it touches the wall at a right angle. Check with a mirror, mark the area with a pencil and measure.
How to measure your waist correctly
Often, when measuring waist circumference, many questions and doubts arise. A few technical points:
- A measuring tape is wrapped around the waist parallel to the floor.
- The tape should be pressed tightly, but so that two fingers can be inserted.
- Exhale in a relaxed manner, but do not suck in your stomach.
- Keep your back straight.
We will need: measuring tape and a thin elastic band.
For people with a thin waist. It is enough to attach one end of the tape to the navel and, wrapping it around the waist, take a measurement.
For people of average build. Tie a thin elastic band around your waist and walk around with it for a couple of minutes. You can squat, do bends - the elastic band itself will roll into the narrowest place. Measure along the elastic band with a measuring tape.
For people with big bellies. Place the measuring tape 2-3 cm above the navel and wrap it around parallel to the floor in the same way. Measure three times and take the average value.
Formula for calculation
Using a calculator, calculate the ratio:
waist (cm) / height (cm) * 100
and compare with the results below:
Women:
- Ratio 35 to 41.9: very thin.
- Ratio from 42 to 48.9: normal weight.
- Ratio between 49 and 53.9: overweight.
- Ratio 54 to 57.9: obese.
- Ratio over 58: dangerously obese.
Men:
- Ratio less than 35: exhaustion, underweight.
- Ratio 35 to 42.9: very thin.
- Ratio 43 to 52.9: normal weight.
- Ratio between 53 and 57.9: overweight.
- Ratio 58 to 62.9: obese.
- Ratio over 63: dangerously obese.
For example: you are a woman, your height is 165 cm and your waist size is 72 cm. It turns out: 72 / 165 * 100 = 43. Your weight is normal.
Bonus: a couple of exercises for a beautiful waist
- Leg rotations from a lying position
Lying on your back, raise your straight legs at an angle of 90 degrees and, without lifting your back from the floor and keeping your legs together, begin to tilt your legs first to the left, then to the right. It is enough to do 20 times 3-4 times a week. The exercise works well on the side abdominal muscles and helps remove excess fat.
