What is the reason why children don't grow taller?

Every parent in the family hopes that their children can develop normally. Especially in terms of height, if the parents are not very tall, they especially hope that their children can grow taller. For this reason, every parent will feed their children a lot of nutritious food, hoping that their children can surpass themselves in height. So what is the reason why children don’t grow taller? Today we will introduce it to you.

Spring is the season when children grow fastest. Parents should create favorable conditions to encourage their children to grow. For children to grow well, we must first ensure that they have adequate nutrition, a good appetite, eat well, and have reasonable nutrition to provide the necessary nutrients for growth. But this does not mean that the more children eat, the better. Now let’s take a look at the dietary misunderstandings that affect children’s growth.

Myth 1: The more you eat, the faster you grow

Indeed, if the daily food intake is very small and the nutrition is insufficient, it will affect height growth. However, food intake is not proportional to height growth; if you want to grow taller, you cannot eat too much. Because mild hunger can accelerate the formation of growth hormone in the human body, especially at night. It is best to eat 4-5 times a day, and the amount of food each time should not be too large. Dinner should be eaten early, preferably before 7 o'clock in the evening, to facilitate a good sleep at night, promote the secretion of growth hormone, and help grow taller. Usually, you can also drink some yogurt and mixed juice of fruits and vegetables.

Myth 2: Eating more plant-based foods helps you grow taller

From the perspective of nutritional structure, eating vegetables and fruits is absolutely necessary, and one day should eat no less than 1.5 to 2 kilograms of various fresh vegetables and fruits. However, for short people, if they want to grow taller, they cannot just eat plant foods, they also need to consume enough protein, 80-100 grams per day. Because protein is an essential nutrient that makes up all cells and tissues in the body. To this end, short people should eat fish, meat, eggs, milk, beans and their products, and pay attention to mixing animal and plant proteins to facilitate protein complementarity.

Myth 3: Eating more foods rich in vitamins can help you grow taller

Medical research shows that vitamin deficiency in the human body will affect height growth. However, nutritional imbalance and insufficient mineral intake also affect height growth. For example, calcium and phosphorus are essential minerals for human bone tissue. If calcium and phosphorus are deficient, bone metabolism will be impaired, which can lead to bone maldevelopment, retardation or softening and affect growth. If you drink milk, or eat eggs, fish, yogurt and other foods every day, it will help supplement calcium and phosphorus. In addition, human growth is also inseparable from the effects of trace elements such as salt, zinc and fluorine. These trace elements mainly come from various food crops, especially oats, vegetables, soybeans, fruits, peanuts and tea.

There are many reasons why children do not grow taller. Some things can be supplemented for children later in life, but there is no way to supplement some innate things. Therefore, if a child's innate conditions are not very good, then it is important to supplement the child with more nutrition and let the child do more physical exercise. This will help your child achieve an ideal height.