We all know that height is influenced by genetics, but nutrition and exercise are important later in life. But it turns out that eating too much can also affect the child’s body growth! What is this all about?
Too much food can affect the baby’s height?
Mothers want their babies to grow taller in the future, so they let their children eat a lot every meal. This will affect the growth of the child, but the child will not grow taller.
When people are hungry, they will promote the pituitary gland to secrete more growth hormone, which stimulates the growth of children’s bones. Therefore, the child only give him an eighth of the amount of each meal is enough; do not eat snacks after the meal, otherwise it will prevent the secretion of growth hormone, so that children do not grow taller.
Excessive nutrition will make the child’s sexual development period early, resulting in premature sexual maturity. Such children may be taller than their peers at a certain age, but prematurely promote bone development, leading to early epiphyseal closure and eventually becoming short.
Precocious puberty is also likely to lead to short stature
In clinical practice, it is generally believed that girls develop breasts before the age of 8 and menstruation begins before the age of 10; boys develop secondary sexual characteristics before the age of 9, accompanied by rapid physical development, which is called precocious puberty.
If a child develops precocious puberty, due to the early release of sex hormones, the growth hormone also appears to be different, making the child’s height grow faster. Although the height will be temporarily higher than that of children of the same age in the early stage, due to the stimulation of sex hormones, bone maturity becomes early and epiphysis will close early, which overdraws the growth potential and leads to the shortening of the growth period, causing the height development to stop prematurely and eventually leading to short stature.
Precocious puberty is usually detected by parents very late, when the child’s bone age is basically mature, and it is already very difficult to grow taller. Therefore, once a child’s precocious puberty is confirmed through bone age monitoring, medical intervention must be carried out in a timely manner to delay the maturation of the bone age and ensure the child’s continued growth.
Six rules for children to grow taller
Parents should help their children adjust their lifestyle to maximize their growth cycle. In this regard, there are six rules recommended for parents.
1. Give your child enough sleep
“Growth hormone is a “pulsatile” secretion, with more secretion at night and less secretion during the day. If children sleep well at night and secrete more growth hormone, they will naturally grow more.
2, moderate exercise to promote growth hormone secretion
Sunlight can promote the synthesis of active vitamin D in the body, help calcium absorption, and promote growth; the interaction in activities can make children feel the affection and care, relax, and reduce the secretion of stress hormone while increasing the secretion of growth hormone.
3, eat less foreign fast food, balanced nutrition
Eating too much greasy food can easily lead to children’s overweight and early gonadal development, shortening the growth cycle and affecting the final height.
4, give children to reduce the pressure
Research shows that stress and long-term depression can affect the growth of children. Girls who lack fatherly love are prone to early sexual maturity; children who lack maternal love or experience abuse can show “maternal deprivation syndrome”, which is characterized by stunted growth, and accelerated growth after improving the environment.
5.Avoid polluted environment to reduce precocious puberty in children
Estrogen and estrogen-like substances (such as ginseng and female cosmetics) can accelerate the development of bones, which will have an impact on the final height of the child.
6, preschool “special high” to be alert
If a child grows too tall before school age, it is possible that the gonads develop prematurely and “jump up” too early, but the final height is not high, resulting in the situation of “high child, short adult”.