Whether it’s the old saying “seven-foot man” or the current “tall and handsome”, people always seem to have a preference for tall people. So, tall people must be popular, short people deserve to be trolled? I summarize some of the effects of height on people’s health, and ask experts to tell you that there are “golden secrets” to help grow taller.
A. How tall is normal?
Fetal period
Malnutrition affects height. If the nutrition is poor during pregnancy, 15-20% of babies will be affected after birth.
Infancy
25 cm per year, from birth to the age of 1 year, is the infancy period. This year is the fastest growing year in a person’s life.
Early childhood
17 cm in height. Early childhood refers to the period from the age of 1 week to the age of 3 years. Your baby’s height growth rate is slightly slower than that of infancy, but it is also relatively fast.
Preschool and school-age years
5-6 cm per year. Preschool and school age refer to the period from the age of 3 weeks to the age of 6-7 years before entering elementary school, and from the age of 6-7 years when entering school to the age of 12-14 years when entering puberty, respectively.
Adolescence
Don’t fall below 7 cm per year. This period begins with a sudden increase in physical growth and ends when the epiphysis closes completely, the body stops growing, and sexual development matures.
Where is the switch for growth hidden?
First place: genetics
According to research, 75% of the final height of a person depends on genetic factors. The genetic height of the next generation can be predicted by the following formula.
Son’s adult height = (father’s height + mother’s height + 13 cm)/2
Daughter’s adult height = (father’s height + mother’s height – 13 cm)/2
Second place: nutrition
Height is built up by “nutrition”, and protein is the main “building material” of the human body. In addition, “mental nutrition” will also determine the size of the child.
Number three: normal development
Growth hormone deficiency, low thyroid hormone, and low sex hormone levels may affect normal development, thus affecting height to varying degrees.
Fourth: Disease
Acute diseases cause weight loss and chronic diseases affect height and weight. Diseases like chronic gastroenteritis, heart disease and other diseases that lead to impaired nutrient absorption can make the child’s body insufficiently nourished, and height cannot grow normally.
Fifth place: the region, climate
South and north due to the hot and cold climate, metabolism fast and slow, early and late when the development of time, resulting in the basic height of high and low, so the southerners are generally shorter than the northerners.
How to remedy the situation after birth?
If both parents are not tall, how to create the conditions to make up for the congenital deficiency? Experts suggest that we must seize the “golden season” of growth, from nutrition, exercise, sleep and other convenient efforts.
1, protein, minerals do not lack: a glass of milk every day is the secret to increase height, do not be too fat, too fat will also affect the growth of height.
2, the necessary outdoor activities every day: infants and toddlers can do some active or passive gymnastics; preschoolers can do some upward jumping activities, such as jumping jacks, shuttlecock, etc.; adolescents can do jumping and other bouncing sports and whole-body sports, such as basketball, volleyball. And weightlifting, shot put, barbell and other weight training, growth and development during the best do not do.
3, try to go to bed before 10:00: growth hormone secretion reaches its peak during deep sleep at night, in order to reach a deep sleep state as soon as possible, try to let children go to bed before 10:00.
4.Measure height every two months: Generally speaking, if your child’s annual height growth is less than 4 cm, and the height gap with children of the same age is gradually widening, you should pay more attention to it. You should take your child to the pediatric endocrinology specialist for consultation and examination as early as possible.
5, do not believe in height increasing supplements: now the so-called height increasing medical insurance supplies “everywhere”, do not blindly use, especially children with closed epiphysis, the use will not have an effect. If you are still in puberty, abuse of these health care drugs may lead to precocious puberty, which is not conducive to growth.