Question for tall people

Nutrition plays a large part in height. Science.

That being said... it definitely helps to start young. Um, as in... in utero (or even before that with your mother's nutrient stores.) How old are you now? I'm guessing your height has already been set.

I do know some exercises as you're growing can have a (very small) influence on height. If I remember correctly... jumping is good

Something about how the body allots the human growth hormones.

But it's been a while since I last read about that. Don't quote me.

Wow. 4'10??

How old is she? Has she hit puberty?

First borns tend to be taller. (Nutrition stores in mamma helps.)

Nutrition definitely plays a part in height. For example, after WWII Japan started eating more protein from fish and their population grew as a whole by about 3 inches.

Just look at immigrant families. The parents who came here from ______ country are usually a few inches shorter than their children who grew up here. (Excluding the Nordic countries and those damn Danes. )

I know a family where the eldest is the shortest, and the youngest is the tallest. I don't think it had anything to do with what they ate somehow.

I'm 5'9", which is tall-ish for a female, I suppose. As a kid/teen, my diet consisted mostly of meat, simple carbs (pasta/rice/bread), fast food, junk food, candy galore, and fruits. I've always had a tendency to skip breakfast and eat a medium-sized lunch, colossal-sized dinner, and enough sweets to put a diabetic in a coma.

My mom is 5'1" and my dad was 5'5". I have 5 siblings and I'm the tallest of all of them--my second-oldest brother comes close at 5'7". Apparently I get my height from my great-grandfather as my other grandparents were super short.

SierraFatToSkinny wrote: »

First borns tend to be taller. (Nutrition stores in mamma helps.)

Nutrition definitely plays a part in height. For example, after WWII Japan started eating more protein from fish and their population grew as a whole by about 3 inches.

Just look at immigrant families. The parents who came here from ______ country are usually a few inches shorter than their children who grew up here. (Excluding the Nordic countries and those damn Danes. )

You are so right about the Danes. My husband's maternal family is Danish and he's 6'4", and his mom and sister are 5'11" or so.

Ya'll would be surprised what's really influenced by nutrition and environment.

I have a good friend who is a genetist and it's quite encouraging.

For example, intelligence. Intelligence! Not really genetic. It's almost exclusively the based on what's going on in utero and the first couple years (if not the first couple months) of life.

Oxygen is insanely important. Vitamin D is insanely important.

For example, people born during summer months are generally taller than those born in winter months. People born in fall tend to suffer more from brain disorders. Those born in the winter tend to have higher risk of heart issues.

All of this is chalked up to the amount of sun the mother receives during pregnancy.

There's loads of very interesting statistics out there ready to be googled.

In a Western country where protein is readily available and food scarcity simply isn't an issue for folks in ordinary circumstances, there's no reason to think you can alter your growth by eating any differently than you do now.

I'm a hair taller than my father -- well, a hair taller than he was; now that he's well into his 80s he's shrunk a bit -- and I ate nothing special as a kid. In fact I was a very picky eater. There were lots of foods I could hardly even gag down. In elementary school when they did the sort of height and weight check that passed for screening in those days, they'd always note me as being underweight. (Not a problem these days!)

As others have noted, there are factors other than genetics that might affect your height, but you can't do anything about any of them now.