Apparently studies published in a medical journal suggest that although humans more routinely reach 100 years of age almost never has the figure of 120 years been reached (except in myth). Similarly, despite both men and women having gained 8-10 centimetres in height over the last 100 years, there has been no appreciable increase over the last 30 years. Dutch men are still the tallest at 1.82 cms on average. Nothing was said about average weight, which visual evidence suggests has increased hugely, in the west at least.
The sub editor, having been weighed on a almost daily basis these last few days and is used only to metric weights and measures now, wondered what his weight is in "old money". A quick "coup de calculatrice" shows that 71 kilos is pretty well exactly 11 stone (154 lbs to our American readers), or 0.02 elephants apparently. Interesting to see the doctor's reaction when he is told we are now using the elephant scale.
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* we wonder how they got the elephant onto the bathroom scales..
