With the arrival of spring, the sunny, peachy, green and blue waves on the shores of Xizi Lake usher in the season of trekking and tourism. However, did you know? In addition to being a good season for travel, spring is also a good time for children to grow taller. A study by the World Health Organization shows that children are affected by sufficient infrared and ultraviolet rays in spring, which accelerates blood circulation in the body and blood circulation in the pituitary gland, promoting the secretion of pituitary growth hormone, as well as increasing vitamin D synthesis in the skin, promoting bone cell proliferation and calcium deposition. Therefore, children grow fastest in the spring. Parents, schools and doctors should seize the spring as a good time for children to grow taller, and work together to make children’s height grow like a spring in spring.
What can we do to help our children grow taller in the spring?
Let children eat more fresh food Adequate nutrition can make children grow taller, which many parents know, but many parents do not understand how to strengthen nutrition. Child growth and development experts believe that the scientific approach is a balanced nutritional diet. To put it in layman’s terms, children should be allowed to eat “mixed”. In addition to breast milk and cow’s milk, infants and toddlers who have not yet grown teeth should be fed with protein and vitamin-rich fish, meat, eggs, beans, rice, noodles, vegetables and other soups, purees and pastes. After the teeth have grown, children should fully reflect the principle of dietary diversity, do not pursue the child to eat more, eat fine, eat fast, the focus is to eat mixed. In the spring, everything is growing, you can provide children with a lot of fresh food, such as fresh vegetables, aquatic products, etc. are conducive to the growth of children, should let children eat more. Of course, foods rich in lysine, arginine and taurine and other nutrients that are beneficial to children’s growth, such as milk, beef, peanuts, oysters, kelp, spinach, tomatoes, celery, carrots, citrus, millet, buckwheat, etc. should be planned to supplement. The sweet food, carbonated drinks, coffee, fried food, puffed food and ginseng, snow clams and other supplements are not beneficial to growth, and are prone to obesity and premature maturity, be careful to limit.
Let your child get more sunlight Adequate sunlight is an important condition for children to grow taller. The ultraviolet rays of sunlight can promote the synthesis of vitamin D in the skin, which is the main source of vitamin D for human beings (and the content in breast milk and natural foods are very small, so you cannot get enough vitamin D through natural foods). Regular exposure to sunlight can obtain abundant vitamin D, promote the absorption of calcium and phosphorus and the deposition of calcium salts in bones, promote the growth of bones and help prevent rickets. In spring, when the sunshine is abundant and the climate is suitable, children should be allowed to increase their outdoor activities. In addition to weekend and holiday excursions, the break time after each class at school, extracurricular activities and on the way to and from school are all good times to receive sunlight. Because ultraviolet rays cannot pass through glass windows or objects that block the sunlight, children cannot receive effective sunlight indoors or in cars, which is not conducive to the synthesis of vitamin D. Therefore, school teachers and parents are advised to create more opportunities for children to receive sunlight outdoors.
Let your child sleep more and get a good night’s sleep Adequate sleep is one of the necessary conditions for children to grow taller. Human growth is mainly regulated by the growth hormone secreted by the pituitary gland, and the peak of growth hormone secretion occurs at night after sleeping. Insufficient sleep, or sleeping too late at night will cause the secretion of growth hormone to decrease, thus affecting the growth of children. On the contrary, if you get enough sleep and go to bed on time, the secretion of growth hormone will increase and your child’s height will be naturally “higher”. Therefore, teenagers in the growth period should arrange their work and rest time reasonably, and should not stay up late at night because of unfinished homework during the day. Generally speaking, secondary school students should go to bed before 10 p.m. and elementary school students should go to bed before 9 p.m.; the total sleep time in a day should not be less than 10 hours. In order to ensure your child’s sleep and growth, you should try to reduce the burden of students in school. At the same time, create a quiet and comfortable sleeping environment for your child, so that he or she can enter a deep sleep to facilitate the peak of growth hormone secretion.
Let children jump up and down more Exercise can promote the secretion of growth hormone, and vertical exercises such as bouncing in place, playing basketball, jumping rope, swimming, jumping high itself can also stimulate bone growth. Therefore, you should take advantage of the spring weather to let children do more outdoor vertical sports. Exercise time should be guaranteed to be more than 10 minutes, because growth hormone secretion starts to increase only after 10-20 minutes of exercise and reaches its peak after half an hour. Indoors, you can draw a line on the wall at a height that the child can touch by jumping up, and let the child jump up continuously to touch the line. As the child’s average height and then continuously increase the height of the touch height. The author once counted the growth rate of two groups of children who insisted on jumping every day and not jumping every day, and the former grew 1.2 centimeters more than the latter in three months on average. This shows that more jumping is beneficial to the growth of children.
Let your child go to the hospital more often. All children grow taller in the spring, but it varies by gender and age. For example, children within one year of age can grow an average of 25 centimeters taller in a year, normal children of 2 or 3 years old can grow 7-8 centimeters per year, and preschool and school-age children can grow more than 5 centimeters per year. The height of girls will exceed that of boys from the age of 8 or 9, but will be lower than that of boys again after the age of 15 or 16. Adolescent children will experience a second growth spurt, growing at least 6 centimeters per year, and some will even grow 10 centimeters. If your child’s growth rate during these stages is lower than the above low limit, then he or she is growth retarded and should promptly go to a hospital growth specialist or pediatric endocrinologist to have his or her bone age, sexual development level, growth hormone level, thyroid hormone level, growth factor level, etc. measured. Once growth hormone deficiency, precocious puberty, rickets, hypothyroidism, familial dwarfism, idiopathic dwarfism, etc. are detected, you can take advantage of the spring time when growth potential is high and give timely interventions such as medication and exercise.