Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — MEN ARE TALLER IN MORNING [ARTICLE]

MEN ARE TALLER IN MORNING

Marine Examiners Say They May Measure Half an Inch More After Breakfast. Washington, D. G. —Men are taller in the morning than in the evening, medical examiners for the United States Marine corps declare, and the applicant for enlistment who is of medium or small stature has a better chance just after breakfast to meet the height requirements than at any other time during the day. The discs of cartilage between the vertebrae of the backbone yield considerably to the pressure due to the weight of the body, when it is erect, and expand themselves while the body is in a recumbent position. This effect may amount to as much as half an inch in the case of a heavy man of say five feet ten inches in height, according to the marine corps medical examiners.