On diet and human height 

I hate when people call anyone under 6'2 a short king because jeez, how do you think actual short kings feel watching tall people get hyped up as short?!? 😭

Why I measure my calories and not my height

If Adam's a Short King than I'm an Emperor Hobbit at 5'4"

that must have been a typo. i'm sure all those people were trying to call you a "short shorts king," because of the length of your shorts.

Adam, I'm going to choose to believe that the person commenting "least athletic person on RU-vid" commented it with an air of irony, commenting not on how unimpressive they thought your physique to be, but instead how high the standard is of well-known creators who show themselves working out. I would think of it as a compliment--you're showing off your above-average body in a place where most people who would do the same are competitive athletes and bodybuilders.

Adam, the “least athletic body on RU-vid” comment was most likely gen z slang meant to compliment you by saying you’re still very athletic despite being a 40 something cooking RU-vidr. It was a pretty common joke to make on the internet around when you and Dr. Mike did that collab.

I am so shocked that adam mentioned lindybeige

Damn he really is financially stable being able to actually print out all those studies

I'm the shortest dude in my entire family - just barely scraping 5'3 (genuine 'short king' territory LOL), even my sister has a few inches of height on me. My mum is 4'8 so I guess it makes sense, but when you're this short it really does become obvious that some people see it as sort of an inherent fault, even subconsciously. Luckily I don't think it's affected my life in any serious way, so it's mostly just an interesting observation. Really cool to see the subject laid out as thoughtfully as you have!

Normal ordinary international average height king 👑

Adam, your progression to wholesome "Dad content" is much appreciated

I like the ending: "You may not care at all about my feelings, and that's perfectly fine, but think about yours. If you have unrealistic expectations for me, you're going to have unrealistic expectations for yourself, and that's not going to end well for you." That's a great perspective to have. You're a little bit taller than myself and I know how insensitive people can be when commenting on people's height so sorry you had to deal with that. I think a big part of this is cultural and also generational. Whenever I travel to places closer to the equator where people tend to be shorter on average I get treated so much better and more fairly. It really makes me resent the culture where I'm from (the PNW). I say there's a generational aspect to it because I've been single and dating the last few years and I notice single women around my age (40) still really care about height and younger women have been much more open to dating men even men shorter than themselves. I know you're married but just thought I would report some progress there. I caught myself turning down or shying away from an insanely attractive woman that was interested in me because she was quite a bit taller than me and so I started going to therapy. I felt like an insecure asshole probably spreading more insecurity around.

By far the best argument I’ve ever heard about why the United States should adopt the metric system is “minimum height preference in heterosexual women for male partners.” In a population of men height is distributed along a bell curve with some men being very short and others very tall with the majority in the middle. In nations that use the metric system minimum height preference for men by women roughly matches the bell curve of male height distribution. But in the United States this is heavily skewed because of the “first digit bias” e.g. something being priced at $299 rather than $300. This causes women’s minimum height preference in the United States on the tall side to appear normal, but once it goes from 6’2”, 6’1”, 6’0” in height to 5’11”, 5’10”, 5’9” and lower the minimum height preference drops off a cliff significantly. This creates an artificial desire in a significant percentage of women who won’t date a man shorter than 6 feet tall. In the metric system, this does not occur because height is simply measured in centimeters with 6 feet to 5’11” being 183 cm to 182 cm in metric.

Adam Ragusea shouting out Lindybeige. This is absolutely wonderful.

Pretty incredible to do a meta analysis in the form of a breakfast vlog

I'm pretty sure the "least athletic body" comment didn't mean what you thought it meant. It's a meme format that essentially used you, a moderately muscular person, to say that everyone on yt is beefed out. At least that's how I would read it since that format is common in comment threads

The "least athletic body" thing was a compliment. It's saying the standard of fitness on youtube is so high (with so many fitness models, bodybuilders, ect) that someone with an athletic body like you is the least athletic. A bit like when some people say "least angry person in Hull" and show an extremely pissed off guy

As a 5'3" male, yall average height guys who complain about being short can shove it.

Adam noooo "least athletic body on youtube" is a compliment!! It's a meme!! Like putting "weakest scottish man" on a video of a scot lifting wheights, implying that all scots are strong

Absolutely great video. Really loving the energy of the recent videos.

I really really enjoy your almost inner monologues videos. Back by research, a great many good points. And then a closer at the end of the video with a call to action to change your perspective on the human body. Keep up the good work Adam.

Genuinely loving the new vlog-esq informational video format! Also you're looking great Adam! :)

You have swiftly become one of my favorite channels on RU-vid. Thanks for being so genuine!

Anyone else find themselves watching adam not to learn how to cook, but just for entertainment? Seriously, i don’t know if anyone will see this but you have inspired and helped me so much through my cooking journey and learning about food science as a young teen cook. Thank you for that.

So glad Adam is happy and making videos.

Love the style of this video. Sort of a "fast but casual". Works really well.

Love you style of video. It's really encouraging to folks like me who are very intimidated by the idea of cooking a meal to see that it can be extremely easy and casual.

I love Lindybeige, such a perfectly beige man.

0:39 You double flipped the steak, so you did not in fact dab both sides with the paper towel like you intended

Thank you for this video Adam. It definitely hits home for me I am 5'10" and have been called short my whole life by basically everyone not in my immediate family. I have also battled with my weight for decades now and the amount of time I have spent fretting over what others thought of me was not helpful for me at all and now while I am very much still battling with it I am doing for my own reasons mostly dealing with my health and not if random person a or b likes my aesthetics. SO Thank you.

I love these kinds of talk/cook or talk/do stuff videos lately!

Greatly enjoyed the video, thanks Adam!

Although my dad had barely enough to eat in the Depression, he ended up at 5'9". He used to trap rabbits for the table, and once he caught a possum (they always foul traps). He gave it his mother, who baked and served it. He said it was the most awful thing he ever tried to eat. I assume they didn't have a frame like the one used for chickens today. I ended up 5'10" but have lost an inch over the years. I was well-fed as a child. Your dog has exquisite self-control. He looked in every direction not to stare at the meat. Your channel is always entertaining.

This video's disposition is amazing, it feels like a fully coherent thought that treats everything it mentions as is proportionate for it's relevance to the topic. How you achieved this in a 16 minute video is admirable 😁

Brilliant dissertation as always! This is why I watch, love you. It’s not for the cooking it’s for these moments.

I LOVE that you're rocking the preds gear now that you live in TN! Last night was rough but what a season!

I love how real you are with us. You are unpatronizing as you explain deceptively simple concepts and thorough when explaining complex nuance. You make the effort to be kind to everyone while explaining unkindnesses. You don't directly call people out, you just lay out the research papers and they can slip on them if they want. I appreciate how much effort you put into these commentary videos. really. Thanks.

Just compare N. Korea to S. Korea. The southerners r around 2-3" taller due to better diet. It is a perfect comparison cuz they r the same ethnicity but the only diff is nutrition.

I find your content really refreshing and entertaining, and I particularly liked how you emphasised the fact that we are looking so much at extraordinary people and and thus not seeing what actually constitutes as normal or average. Really refreshing and helps to ground yourself better. Cheers, Adam! :)

Love the Tenessee pride with the Preds sweater! Another great video Adam, loving the 'retirement era' you're in here with just good, random content.

I’m 5’11” I used to spend lots of time or forums especially toxic male lifting forums and even delving into the incel sphere It gets really toxic and even I was getting insecure about my height and my image from the stuff I was reading If anyone is reading this please love yourself however you are built and whoever you are

2:43 this is actually far more true today then back then. Today we have fighter jets and tanks which all have maximum height limits, whereas back then maybe being shorter was better for cavalry, and that was about it AFAIK

This is one of the best videos you've done

Great video Adam I totally agree with you!!

As far as nutritional/stress height effects, I remember seeing Japanese American families entering a Buddhist temple. The grandchildren were a notably taller than their parents, who were quite a lot taller than the grandparents. I was in school in the 60’s and 70’s with third or fourth generation Japanese Americans, and they were not notably short. They were about as big as southern Europeans or Latinos.

To preface, I'm 5'6" and around 145-150 lbs, lean and slightly athletic, military veteran. You mentioned the study related to military service and height. Ironically most of the special forces guys I met, were around my height up to 5'11" but were in peak condition and weighting anywhere from 170-200 lbs.

Awesome content as always. Keep it up!

Wow, there are so many layers to this video, I don't even know where to begin! Without saying a word, you demonstrated how to cook a steak AND had one of your characteristic rambles about something on your mind... all at the same time. Bravo!

You mentioned how you think that you have a very average body and I just wanted to say that you are in very good shape for someone in their like 40s. Not every one can make short shorts work like you can!

The funny thing about the line "least athletic body on RU-vid" is there is the "Most X of Y vs Least A of B" meme so it could really be a compliment but I haven't watched the video in question nor be as in that online clique where that would be a meaningful compliment as understood by the innuendo and irony of that meme format

I just want to say, I’ve loved the direction you’ve taken with your channel Adam. It’s informative and interesting, and while it may be a lot of different topics, your delivery, thorough research, and tact make any topic learnable and listenable. You were likely the most kickass professor ever 😂

I love seeing "The Format" making an appearance on your channel, Adam. John and Hank would be proud.

I love Lindybeige! He's definitely one of those classic youtubers that have been around as long as I've been on the site.

I, at 5'10, and my brother, at 5'9, are the shortest guys on our mom's side of the family. At a family reunion, I remarked "how did we get so short coming from a family of six-footers?" (my uncles stand 6'6, 6'5, and 6'3 and I've got cousins as tall as 6'8) My brother quipped, "you forget, our dad came from a family of four-footers." (My dad was 5'7 and his brother and sister are 5'2 and 4'10 respectively.)

I love it when Adam pulls out the studies and proof that support his statements. Very likely my favorite (cooking) RU-vidr

I really liked this form of video, keep up the good work

I LOVE ADAM RAGUSEA UPLOADS HELL YEAHHH

I think a part of this stereotype comes from school years. Shorter boys are bullied more often (as a 5'6 guy in my mid-twenties now, can relate) and therefore they end up in the lower end of class hierarchy more often. Hence the view on them as inferior men compared to 6" jocks.

You look amazing dude, your hard work shows

the last line is golden, "you may not care about my feelings but think about yours (etc)" really well constructed and also true

Can't believe Adam is actually 5'1

Always a great day when Adam uploads

Happy to see your good recording of references. That correlations of the past may disappear as circumstances change is an important lesson. Lindybeige always seemed to go for giving entertaining introductions to many different historical topics. There must be a tradeoff between accuracy, accessibility, entertainment etc... I'd expect he'd agree with a lot of what you said.

you're completely right Adam

I think tall bias comes from how we spend our formative years growing. Like as children, everyone taller than us is older and therefore wiser. Once we reach adulthood, that bias sticks.

Also as someone who is 5'3 I was really hoping I could blame this on some material conditions lmaooo

Great video, and your stove is possibly the coolest thing I've seen!

I wasn’t expecting it to be so deep, but so well done. You’re a cool dude.

Dont worry about your height, i hear hobbits are very good at cooking.

By the way, the term “least (adjective) person in (place)” is generally used to mean “this person is in fact very (adjective)”. It is generally just a joking comment when you take someone who’s a great specimen of some group and pretend this person is unremarkable for that group as a joke about how crazily (adjective) that group is

This has got to be the most unhinged, yet calm rant on youtube. I loved it!

Adam's been working through some body image stuff, we love to see it!

While I don't know the intent behind the comment in question, and maybe context would change that, I do suspect from having grown up with, and spent much if not most of my free time on, the internet, I suspect the "least athletic body on RU-vid comment" wasn't actually an insult. It's a common meme format wherein someone is making a comment on the state of something, by acknowledging that something that looks extraordinary in isolation is actually quite begin in context. Often this is used especially in cases that are meant to be humorous by exaggerating the idea, for example you might see the phrase "least gun-obsessed american" over an image of a guy with a gun collection that is hundreds deep. Obviously it isn't accurate, but is rather commenting on the idea that america does at least seem to be more obsessed with guns than many if not most other societies. Another more relevant one might be someone on the video in question, is saying "Least attractive doctor" in reference to Doctor Mike (the actual doctor one lol, not the one in the actual video, I realized this might confuse people). They aren't actually saying Doctor Mike is ugly, rather playing on the obvious sarcasm to say that they believe doctors to universally be very attractive. The irony there is very obvious since I think it's fair to say most people agree that Doctor Mike is incredibly attractive. All that is to say, you're interpretation isn't necessarily wrong, it could just as well be exactly what you pegged it as, and regardless if it made you comfortable that's obviously fair. But what I described is fairly pervasive right now in generic, internet culture, so it could just as well be someone saying that, but because there wasn't as much obvious irony it was hard to pick up on. As you said, you have a very average, if anything slightly above average, build, so the joke doesn't quite land as easily. Maybe that just speaks to a tendency to put ourselves down, with the commenter holding the erroneous belief that they could never be as fit as those they see online.

So one comment, Ming-Tsai. Just compare him to his parents, both of which have appeared on his cooking shows. HE is twice the size of both put together.

Hope you’re well Adam. Nice video 😊

Very Interesting. Thanks for the video.

Adam, you misunderstood the "least athletic person on youtube" comment, it's a meme, the person was saying the opposite!

I think modern dating is also responsible for the idea that someone 5'8 or 5'9 is short. A lot of women won't even look at a man that's under 6 feet tall

i like this new style of content keep it up

Gotta start watching more Adam.

"Least athletic body on youtube" mf would have a stroke if he saw Boogie2988

“Why I measure my calories and not my height”

Love this rant!

Dude you’re posting less but these videos have been getting great. Highly thoughtful and thought provoking. Don’t full retire just yet.

I come from a line of genetically short people, and had kids with a genetically short man. I knew my son would also be short; one of my mom jobs was to make him feel his stature was a non-issue. [Unlike his father, who has a short complex.] I succeeded ... at 23, my son is comfortable being 5'5", athletic, and very confident when he leads others. [He also cracks jokes about spending less on clothing because he can shop in the boy's department.] Being 5'2" myself, my ideal height for a male partner is about 5'6", with 5'10" plenty tall. Any taller makes him hard to kiss ;-) Not all women are drawn to super tall men.

Lindybeige!

this video was so funny... He really made this vid entertaining by allowing his insecurities and justifications for them the real story being told. great vid

Love your content 🎉🎉🎉

Adam: I'm done with hot takes Also Adam a few minutes later: The nobility in feudal times were objectively superior both physically and mentally

LINDYBEIGE!!!

I like this age of Adam Ragusea. It feels like a casual master at his craft. Just going well as he pleases. It is just very easy going, I feel.

Lloyd is very interesting, great channel.

i don't think eating meat primarily meats growth alot of people point at the past that people were shorter and that they also ate less meat but people forget they also ate terribly in general like in the past you couldn't go to the store and get avocados and pineapples no not eating meat in the 1500s meant bread and dirty water

This AI can never replace who Adam once was, may he rest in peace ❤

I'm enjoying this new energy and flow in your videos. Also, you did emit tall guy energy. Idk what it is either, you had it. lma0

This video has 5'8" energy (bring your own connotation)

Not everything that Lindybeige said has aged very well, but one thing he has always been right about, is that bowties are superior to neckties.

Mind freakin' blown about the unrealistic expectations. I appreciate the insight.

New format is so good

Indulgence meter: Having steak for breakfast at home < Having steak for breakfast in a restaurant < Your dog having steak for breakfast at home while you talk about food insecurity < Your dog having steak for breakfast at a restaurant while you laugh at all the poors staring in the window from outside in the rain (I kid, he's a good boy. He deserves steak)