What does your height say about your health?

Some research has shown that tall males benefit more in professional life (making more money) and in the bedroom (having more sex). But how does your height affect your body?

According to a publication in The Lancet magazine: Diabetes & Endocrinology, being longer reduces the risk of the dead from heart disease to about 6 percent.

Thus, a male measuring 177 inches [7 cm] is much less at risk than his 170 - inch [170 cm] - long companion transmits Telegragraphy.

The reason for this may be that long people have the most powerful lungs and larger blood vessels. This helps prevent the construction of plaques, which are responsible for heart disease and heart attacks.

However, it also has a bad side: As long as heart disease reduces the risk of heart disease, it also increases the risk of cancer by 4 percent by at least that is what the research published in The Lancet says.