What does a child eat that affects his or her height? These foods will affect your child's growth

With the improvement of living and dietary standards, many children have an uncontrolled diet. Sometimes they eat a lot of food which is not conducive to their height growth. Many foods will affect children's height and are also very harmful to their bodies, leading to height defects. So what do children eat that affects their height growth? Let’s take a look at these foods.

Influencing factor 1: Six major nutrients are essential

The most important nutrients that teenagers cannot lack are several major nutrients, including protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, water and inorganic salts (minerals), as well as many non-essential nutrients.

"For the human body to grow, cells need to divide, and the seven major nutrients are indispensable." Song Yu said that these nutrients can be obtained directly from food.

Mothers should not only pay attention to supplementing their children with sufficient amounts, but also supplement them in a balanced manner. It is also important when to start supplementing. Song Yu believes that, generally speaking, the age of 6 to 14 is an important stage in the growth and development of adolescents, and attention should be paid to children's nutrition starting from the age of 6. The seasons also play an auxiliary role in nutritional supplementation. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that spring is the season when all things come back to life. Therefore, spring and summer are also important seasons for supplementing nutrition for children.

Influencing factor 2: Get enough sleep

In recent years, many researchers have stated that children’s lack of sleep will directly lead to their short stature.

In recent years, a large number of investigations and studies have confirmed that the amount of growth hormone secreted by short children is far less than that of normal children, and a considerable number of children do not get enough sleep at night. Since children secrete abundant growth hormone during sleep from childhood to pre-adolescence, the amount of growth hormone secreted from 9 pm to 9 am the next day is three times that of the 12 hours during the day. In particular, there is a secretion peak 70 minutes after falling asleep at 9 pm.

Song Yu said that the sleep time at night is exactly when the human body secretes growth hormone. The growth hormone secreted by the pituitary gland is an important hormone that stimulates children's growth.

Influencing factor three: more exercise and jumping exercises are better

What kind of exercise is more suitable for teenagers? Song Yu said that from the perspective of height alone, the following principle should be followed: choose sports that create vertical pressure, such as jumping, rather than oppressive ones.

Rope skipping, running, basketball, volleyball, dancing, pull-ups, etc. are all exercises that involve jumping upward and stretching outward. However, weightlifting, dumbbell and other exercises all apply inward pressure, which can easily cause compression on the joints and is not conducive to the stretching and development of bones.