How tall your child will be in the future is a matter of concern for parents, especially those who are not very tall, and they would like to know as soon as possible how tall your child will be in the future.

■Current height prediction method

Current height prediction method is also known as the Valkel's prediction method, this height prediction method is based on the child's current height, the use of the following formula to predict the child's future height: Hm = A + B × C

The formula of the Hm for the child's future height when an adult, A for a fixed value, B for the corresponding age coefficient, C for the child's height at that time. child's height at that time. Due to differences around the world, the error is in the range of 3 centimeters.

It has been proved that this method of predicting the child's height is basically suitable for our national conditions. However, the prediction value may be high or low for children who mature early or late.

■Foot-length height prediction method

Adult height = foot-length at the age of 13 years × 7.

Using this method to predict the child's future height is more simple and convenient, and the error is not more than 3 centimeters.

■Parental height prediction

A European scientist created a formula for predicting height based on the relationship between parental height and children's height:

Son's height? centimeters = ? father's height + mother's height × 1.08÷2

Daughter's height? cm = ? father's height × 0.923 + mother's height ÷2

This formula is basically in line with the "high plus high begets high", "short with short begets short", "high plus short begets high" This formula is based on the principles of heredity and on the European Union's "The Law of Genetics". The formula is based on genetic principles and the growth rate of Europeans.

In order to make this prediction formula more suitable for our national conditions, our scientific workers "foreign for Chinese", according to the central region of China's Han children and the relationship between the height of their parents, the coefficient in the formula changed to the male 1.11 ~ 1.12, female 0.948 ~ 0.980 between, in this way, the calculated results will be more in line with the actual situation in China. results will be more in line with the actual situation in our country.

Short children can grow again

For the immature children, their bodies are still in the growth and development, only the growth and development is very slow, giving a kind of no longer long illusion. However, not reached the age of maturity, short and almost no longer long children, there must be some obstacles to growth and development, such as growth hormone secretion, suffering from thyroid disease, etc., as long as these diseases are cured, short children can continue to grow taller.

For short people who have grown into adults, as long as they are not too old, there are still ways to make the body grow a little taller.

According to the laws of bone growth and development, short people who have reached the age of 18 still have hope of growing taller until the age of 25 for men and 21 for women.

With treatments such as taking growth hormone and stretching the body's bones, it is possible to grow a little taller. It is best to take growth hormone under a doctor's supervision, and to stretch your bones under the guidance of a physician or physical education teacher who understands the laws of human growth and development in order to achieve the best results. Most of the results can make short youths grow another 2 to 5 centimeters taller, and some as much as 7 centimeters.

There is also a scientific basis for growing taller

■ Guaranteeing a balanced diet

We need to pay attention to the nutritional balance of the diet. The general principle of the child's diet is to achieve a combination of coarse and fine grains, animal protein and plant protein, according to the season to use different vegetables and fruits, to ensure that children get enough vitamins and minerals every day.

In general, consider adding more protein-rich meat and eggs to your child's diet.

■Raising Good Eating Habits

The biggest bad eating habits of children are picky eating and partiality, parents can't rudely force their children to eat, but to patiently guide them in a gradual and orderly manner, as long as they are persistent, it will make the children gradually change the bad eating habits of picky eating and partiality. If it is due to digestive dysfunction caused by anorexia nervosa, should be appropriate to use drugs to regulate, strengthen digestion and absorption function, in order to prevent the production of malnutrition, affecting the child to grow taller.

■Getting a good routine

Children get enough sleep depending on their age. Newborn babies need 18 to 20 hours, 16 to 18 hours at 2 to 3 months, and 15 to 16 hours at 5 to 9 months. Infants need 14 to 15 hours when they turn 1 year old, and 9 to 10 hours for ages 7 to 13. 8 hours of sleep is usually enough for children over 13.

A good work and rest system is: the time to eat to eat, the time to study to study, the time to rest to try to relax, the time to sleep to go to bed, only to form a set of more fixed system of work and rest, will be conducive to the child's growth and development, so as to grow into a taller person.

■How to grow high

Height can be as high as you want it to be, depending on several factors, first of all, genetic factors, accounting for 70%, in addition, depending on other conditions, including exercise, nutrition, environmental and social factors. In order to let the child grow a little taller, parents should pay attention to the following points:

One, do not miss the rapid growth period

In the process of children and teenagers in the development of puberty, when is the fastest growth in height? Research has confirmed that the vast majority of Chinese Han children's height surge peak for girls around 12 years old, boys around 14 years old; more than 90% of the fastest-growing age of the girl's height between 11 to 13 years old, boys between 13 to 15 years old. In order to let the child grow taller, parents should pay particular attention to the child in the rapid growth period of nutrition, exercise and other issues.

Two, should pay attention to nutritional supplementation

Nutrition is the key to children's physical growth. The energy, protein and amino acids needed for normal physical growth must be supplied by food, mainly meat, eggs, beans and legumes. Bone formation also requires adequate amounts of calcium, phosphorus and trace amounts of manganese and iron. Insufficient calcium intake and vitamin D deficiency will cause insufficient bone mineralization. Vitamin A deficiency will make bone shorter and thicker, and vitamin C deficiency will make bone interstitial formation defective and brittle, all of which will affect bone growth.

At present, the general family in the meat and vegetarian diet, nutrition should be comprehensive and adequate, parents should pay attention not to let the child develop the habit of partiality, and do not let the child too much snacking and affect the intake of important nutrients.

Three, do not ignore the exercise

Sports can strengthen the body's metabolic process, accelerate blood circulation, promote the secretion of growth hormone, accelerate the growth of bone tissue, is beneficial to the human body to grow taller. The following sports have a certain effect on the increase in height, you may want to try.

1. Suspended swing using the bar or door frame, the height of the body hanging on the bar, toes just able to leave the ground as appropriate. Both hands hold the bar, the distance is slightly larger than shoulder width, feet together, then the body swings back and forth, the amplitude is not too large, the time should not be too long. Practice is best arranged in the morning every day, the body as loose as possible down, keep 20 seconds, male youth should do 10 to 15 times, female youth should do 2 to 6 times.

2. Jump up and touch high Jump up with both hands to touch a pre-set object, which can be a roadside branch, a basketball basket or the ceiling. Jump with both feet and do 30 reps. Rest for a moment, and jump on one foot with the right and left foot respectively, in the same way as above.

3. Ball activities When playing basketball, actively scramble for rebounds and jump up to break the ball; when playing volleyball, try to jump up and do more dunking and blocking actions; in soccer, more practice jumping up to hit the forehead action.

4. Jumping exercises can do marching single-footed jumps, frog jumps, triple jumps, multi-level jumps and in-situ vertical jumps and so on.

Four, do not forget to create a good living environment for children

Mental nervous system abnormalities can also affect the growth of children's physical. If the parents are divorced, the relationship between the child and the guardian is abnormal, often abused, or the child is subjected to other serious stimuli, its growth rate will gradually slow down, so that the height in the normal age of children of the same sex below the low limit of height. Physical shortness also aggravates the child's low self-esteem, due to psychological and social stimuli that affect the transmission of nerve impulses from the cerebral cortex to the hypothalamus, thus inhibiting the secretion of growth hormone by the pituitary gland. When the child's environment is treated well, the growth rate can return to normal.

Fifth, do not forget the active prevention and treatment of chronic diseases

Children and adolescents should be actively treated for chronic diseases. Long-term diseases such as chronic infection, chronic hepatitis, chronic nephritis, asthma, heart disease, anemia, etc. can affect growth and development. Genetic disorders of the skeleton, such as osteochondrodysplasia, can also limit bone growth

87 "How to make your child grow tall and strong?

"Mom! It's all your fault for making me so short," said Jiaxiang, who has been seated in the front rows since elementary school and complained angrily to his mother as he saw the gap between his height and that of his classmates grow.

"I told you not to drink more milk and not to exercise! his mother replied in a frustrated voice.

Parents are not only concerned about their children's health, but also whether they will grow taller and stronger in the future. In pediatric clinics and online health advice websites, parents often ask anxiously, "Doctor, why isn't my child growing taller? and "Does drinking more milk help?". Some anxious parents even go around looking for "height-enhancing" remedies in the hope that their children will grow a few centimeters more.

But there are also those who believe that height is genetically determined, and that nutrition and exercise don't play a big role.

Is it true that a person's height is predetermined by nature, or does he or she have to work at it?

What can developing children do to stand a chance of being taller?

The speed of growth is determined by the age of the bones

People grow taller as a result of bone growth and development, and this is mainly reflected in the growth of the bones of the lower limbs and the vertebrae.

The growth of the bones of the lower extremities occurs through the growth plates of the femur and tibia. The growth plates are located at the ends of the bones and are stimulated by the growth hormone secreted by the pituitary gland to produce cartilage, which is calcified to form a hard bone, thus making the bones longer and wider.

The fastest growth in a child's life occurs between birth and one year of age, and then slows down until puberty, when sex hormones kick in and growth hormone interacts with the growth hormone, and the child's height and weight begin to increase dramatically again.

Wang Zhihong, an attending physician at the Department of Orthopedics at National Taiwan University Hospital, pointed out that the progress of a person's height should be evaluated in conjunction with the "bone age" (the age at which the bones grow and develop), rather than just looking at the age of the general decision. Some children who are precocious and whose bone age progresses faster than their actual age may appear to be taller than children of the same age at first, although they may not necessarily have a higher adult height later in life.

When our height grows depends on the closure of growth plates throughout the body. If the plates are closed, it means that the skeleton has developed and matured, and the bones will no longer grow and our height will not increase.

What factors influence a person's height?

Heredity determines how tall you are

The most important determinant of a child's height is heredity.

"The correlation between parental height and child height is as high as 80 percent, with each parent's influence accounting for half of the total," said Wang Zhihong, an attending physician at the Department of Orthopedics at National Taiwan University Hospital. So if neither parent is tall, the child's height generally won't stand out.

But there are exceptions to the rule. Mr. Yang, who works for a construction company, is just over 160 centimeters tall, and his wife isn't very tall either, but his two sons have broken the genetic limit, with one over 180 centimeters tall and the other more than 170 centimeters, which his friends jokingly refer to as the Yangs' "genetic mutation".

In this particular case, Li Junxian, an attending pediatrician at Shin Kong Hospital, pointed out that a person's height is not determined by a single specific gene, and that most people have both tall and short genes, and that whether a person is tall or short depends mainly on which one of these genes is present. explained.

However, the doctor believes that this kind of height difference of more than 10 centimeters between the parents and the child is in the minority, and that most of the children will still be similar to their parents when they are finished growing.

Seeing this, a lot of parents who are not tall may be disappointed. Since genes determine everything, what can be done to help?

In fact, besides genes affecting the height of a person's body, other related factors cannot be ignored. "Let's say that genes dictate that you can grow to 160 centimeters, but if you are undernourished and under-exercised, you probably won't be able to grow to that height," said Lee, who believes that hard work is just as important as hard work.

Nutrition and exercise can help you grow taller

Human growth is a combination of several factors that will affect your child's height in the future, in addition to the inherent limitations of genes:

▓Nutritional intake

Adequate and well-balanced nutrition is the key to a child's height.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) recommendations, protein, calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, and the minerals magnesium and zinc are essential nutrients for your child's height and strength.

Protein is essential for forming and repairing muscles, bones and tissues in all parts of the body, and a lack of protein can lead to stunted growth and atrophy of bones and muscles. Animal foods such as meat, seafood and milk are complete sources of protein, while plant sources can be obtained from beans, cereals and nuts.

Calcium, on the other hand, is the raw material for making bones, which promotes growth and increases bone density. So drinking two glasses of milk a day is a good way to build up your child's bone mass.

Vitamin D is another nutrient that makes bones strong. In addition to milk and fish such as salmon and tuna, the body can produce vitamin D on its own by getting 10 to 15 minutes of sunlight every day.

Zinc, a mineral, is especially important for infants' development. A study in the Netherlands found that insufficient intake of zinc during infant development can lead to poor growth. In addition, a number of foreign studies have also shown that children who consume enough zinc can reduce the incidence of diarrhea. Zinc-rich foods include meat, liver, seafood (especially oysters), eggs and wheat germ.

"Iron is also important for growth and development," added Weng Hui-ling, a dietitian at National Taiwan University Hospital. But according to the Department of Health's National Nutrition Survey, the nation's women generally have iron deficiencies above the age of 4, while men have higher rates of iron deficiency during puberty and in the elderly over 65. So growing children should eat some lean meat, animal liver, egg yolks or dark green vegetables to get enough iron.

▓Exercise

Many people believe that bouncy sports such as jumping rope and playing basketball help them grow taller, and this is true from a medical point of view.

Research has found that excessive compression of the growth plate can cause growth retardation, but moderate and intermittent compression or stretching of the plate can stimulate growth.

So children and adolescents who want to grow taller can't afford not to do sports, especially bouncy sports. But excessive weight training, such as gymnastics and weight lifting, can hinder growth, and physicians recommend avoiding them during the growth phase.

▓Hormone secretion

The secretion of many hormones in the human body dominates or influences our growth and development, such as growth hormone, sex hormones, thyroxine, parathyroid hormone, insulin and so on.

▓Sleep

As mentioned earlier, human growth is mainly due to the effect of growth hormone, and growth hormone is especially strong at night when you sleep, so if you want to grow taller, don't stay up late and sacrifice your sleep time, and go to bed before 11 p.m. as much as possible.

▓Diseases

Congenital diseases of the heart, kidneys, lungs and liver, bone diseases, endocrine and metabolic disorders, and chromosomal abnormalities such as Turnur syndrome can all affect normal growth and development.

Besides the fact that a few people are short because of family genetics, if they are malnourished, they can rely on nutritional supplements to catch up, but if they are suffering from a disease that causes abnormal growth, they should seek medical attention as soon as possible

Many parents are troubled by how to determine whether their children's growth is normal or not, and they are sometimes even overly worried, forcing their children to eat desperately, or looking around to find a secret formula to increase their height

These are just some of the reasons why the US government is so concerned about the health of the world's most vulnerable people. The first step is to make sure that your child's growth is normal and that he or she has the best possible chance of success.

Doctors suggest that parents can assess their children's growth in two ways:

Measure their children's height every six months.

Normally, a child will grow at least 5 to 6 centimeters a year before puberty. If the child grows less than 4 centimeters a year, parents should take the child to a pediatrician for an evaluation and further understanding of the cause of the growth retardation.

Refer to the growth chart in the Child Health Handbook.

A child whose height is below the 3rd percentile for his or her age group is considered pathologically short and needs to be examined and treated. However, parents should not be overjoyed when their child grows too tall. If the growth curve exceeds the 97th percentile for the same age group, the child may be abnormal and must be examined for confirmation.

▓Psychological factors

Excessive stress can cause the body's endocrine dysfunction, so that the secretion of growth hormone is insufficient, and growth is therefore limited. In addition, too much stress can also make the gastrointestinal tract malfunction, the child not only has a poor appetite, the absorption ability is also poor, long-term lead to malnutrition, want to grow taller will be very difficult.

Dietary tips for growing taller and stronger

While genetic constraints make it necessary for us to "listen to God," physicians and dietitians agree that diet, coupled with regular exercise, is the most effective way to "make the most of the situation.

Parents only need to grasp a few dietary tips to make their children grow taller and stronger.

Be careful to follow the principle of a balanced diet.

Children, like adults, should consume six major food groups every day. Parents can refer to the Department of Health's Daily Dietary Guidelines to understand the dietary needs of children of different ages. (See table)

Adolescent children grow faster and become more active. In order to provide the energy and nutrients needed for growth and development, calorie needs are higher, with boys consuming 2,150 to 2,650 calories a day, and girls needing 2,100 to 2,200 calories.

Parents set an example by not favoring food.

Many studies have pointed out that a child's eating habits are most influenced by his or her parents. According to Weng Hui-ling, a dietitian at National Taiwan University Hospital, if you want your child to grow up well, not favoring food is the most basic principle. Parents in the three meals for the child with the color of the dishes, try to change as much as possible, so that children from a young age to try a variety of foods. With a wide variety of foods, you don't have to worry about a lack of the nutrients you need to grow.

Don't make negative comments about food in front of your child.

For example, if you say, "How dare you eat a bitter melon when it's so bitter? And of course, don't use food as a tool to reward or punish your child.

Teach your children to eat a balanced diet.

Modern dual-income families rely on eating out for most of their meals, and many parents give their children money to buy their own lunches. Dietitian Ms. Weng Hui Ling suggests that parents pay more attention to their children's eating out and instill in them some healthy dietary concepts, such as eating less fried and deep-fried food, choosing a balanced and varied menu, and consuming all six major food groups.

Avoid letting your child gain weight or diet to lose weight.

Lee Chun-hsien, a pediatrician at Hsin Kuang Hospital, pointed out that obese children take in too many calories, fat and sugar, causing their bone age to progress faster than their actual age. Although their heights stand out more than other children at the beginning, they won't necessarily be able to grow taller in the future because of the early and compressed growth period.

It's easy to keep kids from getting fat, as long as they limit the number of times they eat high-calorie foods like burgers and French fries, drink fewer sugary drinks, and get regular exercise, they won't have to worry about obesity.

Additionally, Weng Huiling, a nutritionist, believes that modern young girls are influenced by the slim figure of idol stars, even if their weight is normal, they still desperately diet to lose weight and not only miss the opportunity to grow taller and develop, but also have a serious impact on the health of adults.

The prime time for growth and development is fleeting, so if you want your child to be tall and strong, seize the opportunity to practice the "secret formula" that "Health" teaches you

Sports are essential to the growth of bones

The growth of a child is dependent on the right amount of exercise. Children who do not exercise enough have no appetite during the day and cannot sleep at night. As a result, they become very sleepy in the morning and can't sleep at night. In the morning, they go to class without eating breakfast, and they spend the day in a daze, and the vicious cycle of insufficient exercise is evident throughout the day.

Exercise itself promotes the production of growth hormone. It puts people to sleep, and without saying it you know that this promotes growth hormone production. When the body is sufficiently exercised, the appetite can be increased, and you can sleep well at night. In the morning, you can also wake up naturally with a clear mind, and after eating a good breakfast, you can start a new day with a good attitude.

What kind of exercise is beneficial

What kind of exercise should be done in order for the body to grow taller? I've heard that some kids join the basketball club at school in order to grow taller, but is it possible to grow taller just by playing basketball?

Simply put, exercises that improve appetite, promote sleep, and put a certain amount of vertical pressure on the bones are good for growing taller. Specifically, jogging, jumping rope, dancing, playing basketball and volleyball. However, many basketball and volleyball players are already tall, so it would be a mistake to encourage children who don't like these sports to play them just for the sake of growing taller. Because emotional stability is also important for growth, let your child choose his or her favorite sport. However, it is better to let high school students, whose bodies have stopped growing, engage in intense sports that are overly physically demanding. Bone development comes in part from vertical pressure, but too much pressure (lifting weights, etc.) makes it difficult for bones to grow vertically.

Exercises that help you get taller Exercises that don't help you get taller

It's good to choose sports that your child enjoys: volleyball, basketball, ballet, stretching, jumping rope, jogging

It's not good to force your child to play a sport that they don't like: weight lifting, overdoing it, and playing a sport that involves too much physical exertion (a marathon, etc.).

Short stature how to grow taller

Short stature of young people, in addition to some of the short stature caused by disease must be seriously dealt with by the doctor, most of them have to rely on their own efforts to dig out the growth potential of their height. How to dig? In short, it is under the guidance of doctors and sports workers, adjust the diet and lifestyle, adhere to the special physical exercise.

On the adjustment of diet and lifestyle, the following suggestions can be referred to:

1. Reasonable regulation of diet, do not partiality, do not overeat, not only to ensure adequate nutrition, but also appropriate moderation. Don't smoke, don't drink;

2. Life should be regular, sleep should be sufficient, regular, the best sleep hard board bed, pillow should be lower than 5cm;

3. Pay attention to their own health care, no disease prevention, early treatment of disease. Read about short stature research and height growth and development of the book, read do not understand can consult a doctor, increase knowledge, with science to guide their own actions;

4. Maintain physical and mental health, rich recreational life, emotional stability, no worries and favorable growth and development.

In recent years, some authors have reported that the duration of 1-2 hours of moderate physical activity, in a certain period of time can make the body wind growth hormone content increased significantly, with the increase in blood growth hormone content, that is, leading to the tubular bone growth zone live fall, thereby increasing height.

It should be taken into account that neither the smaller exercises (e.g. jogging, slow swimming, etc.) nor the larger ones (e.g. marathon running, long-distance skiing, etc.) lead to an increase in height, the former due to insufficient stimulation and the latter due to the fact that they debilitate the body to an extreme degree (e.g., completing 1,000 jumps in a day and an excessive amount of heavy weight lifting with a barbell can even prevent the growth of the long bones). Success depends on the right combination of different exercises.

It has been suggested that prolonged activity in sports such as jumping, weightlifting, and swimming does promote height gain. In our opinion, all short-statured children and teenagers whose epiphyses are not closed, if the doctor thinks that they do not suffer from short-statured diseases and there are no other medical contraindications, they should bravely start special physical training to increase their height. However, it is worth mentioning that, into the training should be gradual, the initial period of time, especially do not make too much due to anxiety, should pay attention to self-feeling, if there is discomfort, should consult a doctor and physical education teacher.

Help you straighten the tall gymnastics

Warm-up exercise: move the limbs of the joints, spine to keep straight, lean forward, arms straight and hard to the back of the upper swing.

Walking: Swing your arms forward vigorously.

Running: run in small steps, at the same time both fists on the shoulders, arms bent at the elbow in front of the rotation; fast running and jumping 25-50 meters, repeat 4-6 times, each time after a short break.