Will children really grow taller by running?

Running is a very popular sport. No matter it is for adults or children, running is the most common sport. Children are playful by nature and often run around and play, which is actually running. Many families think that if children run more, it will help them grow taller, but they actually don’t know whether this statement is correct. So can running really help children grow taller? Let’s answer this question below.

Exercise is a good way to promote bone growth, and running is one of them. Let’s see whether jogging can promote height growth.

Whether you can grow taller depends on your bone age. Bone age is an indicator of development. If your age is greater than your bone age, it means you have growth retardation; if your age is less than your bone age, it means you have precocious puberty, etc. Therefore, if you want to understand your growth and development, you should go to a regular hospital to take a bone age X-ray. Your doctor will judge your growth potential based on the epiphyseal closure shown on the bone age film.

Simply put, exercises that can increase appetite, promote sleep, and apply a certain degree of longitudinal pressure to bones are beneficial for growing taller. Specifically, there are jogging, skipping rope, dancing, playing basketball and volleyball, etc. However, many children who play basketball and volleyball are already very tall. If you let children who don't like these sports engage in these sports just to make them taller, you are wrong.

Because emotional stability is also important for height growth, let your children choose the sports they like. However, strenuous exercise that consumes too much physical energy is better left to high school students whose bodies have stopped growing. Bone development comes to a certain extent from longitudinal pressure, but excessive pressure (weightlifting, etc.) makes it difficult for bones to grow longitudinally.

Jogging can promote whole body metabolism, improve lipid metabolism, and prevent excessive lipids in the blood. Coronary heart disease, hypertension, arteriosclerosis and other senile diseases are mostly related to lipid metabolism in the body. Jogging can improve the normal metabolism of lipids in the body, reduce the content of cholesterol and triglycerides, prevent and reduce the deposition of lipids such as cholesterol on the blood vessel walls, thereby playing a role in preventing and treating coronary heart disease, hypertension and other senile diseases.

As we all know, exercise can help people grow taller, so if children participate in more physical exercise, doing more exercises can promote bone growth. Running is also a kind of exercise, so running regularly can help people grow taller. However, there are many factors that affect height, so running does not necessarily help you grow taller. This is something we need to pay attention to.