How can children grow taller?

Everyone wants to have a slim figure and wear beautiful clothes, but height will greatly affect the effect. How to make children grow taller is a common problem encountered by every parent. Some people say that genetic factors affect height by more than 60%, which makes short parents a little frustrated. In fact, this is not the case. There are many children whose parents are not very tall, but their children can grow tall. The following will introduce to you how children can grow taller. Let’s take a look.

Hormone secretion

Height depends on the secretion of growth hormone by the human body, especially four important glands - thyroid, pituitary, thymus and gonads. The growth hormone secreted by the cerebral follicle of patients with dwarfism is significantly insufficient; women with incomplete gonadal dysgenesis are generally less than 1.4 meters tall; and thyroid disease can also affect height.

Health status

Children grow fastest before the age of 5, growing 20 cm per year. By the age of 5, the growth rate stabilizes at around 6 cm per year. During puberty, the growth rate accelerates to 10 cm per year, and the increase basically stops thereafter. At this stage, many diseases such as anemia, chronic infection, indigestion, etc. will inhibit growth, and endocrine disorders will also affect growth.

Physical exercise

Physical activity helps speed up blood circulation and promote bone growth. According to statistics: children of the same age and gender who exercise regularly are 4-10 cm taller than those who do not.

Trace Elements

Studies have found that if the body lacks calcium, the bones will stop growing and the child will also suffer from rickets; children who lack zinc not only have a poor appetite, but also are shorter and heavier than children of the same age.

Sexual maturity

Generally speaking, children who reach sexual maturity later are taller, while children who reach sexual maturity earlier are shorter.

Sun exposure

Appropriate sunlight exposure will increase the synthesis of vitamin D in the body, which is extremely important for the gastrointestinal tract to absorb calcium and phosphorus and ensure normal bone growth.

Introduced above are some methods for children to grow taller. I believe everyone has already understood them. I also want to tell you that there are two peak periods in the process of human growth; one is in infancy, and the other is adolescence. During this period, promoting growth through nutrition is the basis. At this time, parents must pay attention to giving their children more foods containing various nutrients.