Why the american blacks are taller and bigger than the african blacks?

Question

diet? inter-racial marriages? taking growth hormone?

Answer 1

I found this quote,

"Carolina planters developed a vision of the "ideal" slave – tall, healthy, male, between the ages of 14 and 18, "free of blemishes," and as dark as possible. For these ideal slaves Carolina planters in the eighteenth century paid, on average, between ?100 and ?200 sterling – in today's money that is between $11,630 and $23,200! "

Answer 2

Hybrid Vigor (genetic mixing),

and an improved diet!

Answer 3

Diet, The US diet - up until the 1970's was significantly better than that found elsewhere in the world.

Since about the 1970's and the serious advent of fast-food, the US population has actually started getting shorter and "less" fit , compared to those in other countries with similar economics.

Answer 4

It's all got to do with food unavailability in Africa

Answer 5

It's definitely diet!

Answer 6

lol u noticed that too.....

Answer 7

They're not really significantly bigger than them, but you must realize that during the slavery days the white people used to breed the biggest and most powerful and tallest slaves, so that repeated created bigger and more powerful black people here.