&gt;The most extreme examples are in Japan, where mean height has increased 5.5 inches in the last 50 years,<p>If you want to stay small, do what the japanese did pre-war, that made them so small: Sit on your soles.<p>&gt;“If you were that small,” he says, “you’d be eaten by cats!”<p>Here is a picture from 1956 of Henry Behrens, the smallest man in the world at the time, dancing with his cat. He was 75 cm, 50% lager than the envisioned 50cms.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kittybloger.files.wordpress.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;26th-october-1956-henry-behrens-the-smallest-man-in-the-world-dances-with-his-pet-cat-in-the-door.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kittybloger.files.wordpress.com&#x2F;2013&#x2F;10&#x2F;26th-october...</a>