Observing and interacting with immigrants both hispanic and asian to the United States I’ve come to the conclusion that height and a good build is something in the genetics of all humans regardless of race or ethnicity.
Nutrition is the #1 factor in height and a robust build.
And I believe the main deciding factor in this is childhood nutrition, while genetics still play a, albeit smaller, role.
I once sat speaking with a small filipino man, maybe 5’2″, and 105-115lbs. In the conversation he asked me if I had played football, guessing my height and weight very accurately, to which he said he was able to as he knew the height/weight of his two college football playing sons (one junior college, one d3), both 100% filipino blood born to the same pair of immigrant parents, born and raised here, 6’1″ 245, and 5’11” 260.
I spoke to him of the size differences, and nutritional variances.
In the Philippines, he grew up on mostly rice and veggies, with a very small amount of chicken. What was telling was his discussion of, and focus on meat.
Chicken in his eyes was not meat, and I’d safely guess he viewed fish in the same light.
His favorite thing about America?
Access to meat. Context clues, such as a look at his lunch box which held fully a kilo of stewed beef in a giant tupperware container, easily led one to understand he meant good anabolic fatty meat, the thing the media and medical establishment vilifies. He ate as much meat as he could in his 40-50 years in America, and made damn certain his sons were raised on the meat heavy diet unavailable to him in the Philippines.
While I believe a mixed macro diet is the best overall for robust humans, as carbs are the largest factor in muscular bulk, the meat is a base level necessity fully available in America and wholly not taken advantage of by native born Americans.
Immigrants to a larger degree see the cornucopia available, and take full advantage while natives are on low fat bird feed “organic” diets, soy lattes, junk food based binge diets, and similar.
I’ve seen the little abuelita with a grocery cart loaded with steak, maybe 10% of the cart veggies, and 10% chicken.
White Americans are eating low t bullshit, and Black Americans are eating similar.
No white is lactose intolerant. At least not of natural, raw, fully fat milk. Even the lower quality of store bought homogenized milk should still be digestible to all, drank, and utilized. Milk is the reason I’m over 200lbs.
Meat for all, meat and dairy for all who can stomach it.
I actually fought with my mother to get whole milk in the house, then more of it as a teen. Steak was something I never had growing up, ground beef was infrequent prior to 16/17, to this day everything my mother cooks that should be beef is instead turkey. While young soy based dairy alternatives were primarily used.
Shit like this leaves a lot of potential for robustness on the table. My learning to eat hearty and train hard in my youth was to a degree damage control.
(And I still grew to be a 6′ tall heavyweight.)
I don’t blame my mother, no woman alone can stand up to the harmful propaganda put out about food.
Do you know anyone not fearful of cholesterol?
It was on me to trust my instincts and set it right. My mother and father can eat bird feed, that’s not my path. It saddens me seeing my father eat cereal, pour white water (skim milk) over it, eat lowest fat ground turkey, etc. That’s not man food.
Instinctively Man food is known.
High fat (fat being the most important of macros, to the point I’d rather you add heavy cream to a shake in place of milk), with protein and carb levels by desire.
I feel this desire is instinctive and weather based. The colder it is the more fat craved, the warmer the more carbs (technically carbohydrates hint hint) craved.
Big eating is an incredibly anabolic activity, as long as you’re not sitting around all day eating garbage, and are willing to at least go for a walk.
America’s grocery stores make this the land of aplenty to all.
Your diet can be as hearty and nourishing as you choose…at inexpensive, easily affordable prices.
Those born to generations of Americans often aren’t eating as hearty as the children of immigrants who’ve realized the horn of plenty they find themselves living in after a childhood of true food scarcity abroad.
Eat instinctively. Take advantage of the blessing that the modern food supply chain is.
Persistence & Tenacity