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aaron7
food. food. foood. what else is your body made of?
i would say you should load up on calcium, since putting foods that have a lotta calcium go straight to your bones, which BAM! helps you grow. so here's some high calcium foods like: low-fat milk (or whole), yogurt and cheeses.
i would also avoid stuff like caffeine (if u drink it), since it robs the body of calcium, which isn't good. (also, avoid eating extra sugar and salts. they take away and dont hold much if any nutritional value.)
next up is:proteins. your muscles need protein so i would eat stuff like fish and eggs (boiled). *but u might not like the fish, im an asian, so im used to it. but if u like lots of meat or chicken(yum), just make sure to go lean, or else u could give urself some bags of flab. eating more nuts will give u a lot more nutrients than a handful of potato chips.
it's good that ur eating vegetables. however u can eat certain kinds, especially spinach, brussel sprouts, broccoli, asparagus (definitely from what i've heard), cabbage, and coleslaw, since all contain vitamin k, which turns on your bone-building protein. (osteocalcin)
if ur a cereal eater in the morning, eat ones that have vitamin d. vitamin d will take all the calcium in and deposit it into your bones.
oooh, also, no one really knows this but your bones are also made out of MAGNESIUM. enough to make it an important factor. some foods that contain it would be: nuts, dried beans, crabmeat, spinach, wheat germ, wheat bran and chocolate (i couldn't believe the last one myself. who would've guessed.)
i also have a personal reference: my uncle eats a TON of blue cheese and he is the tallest man i have ever met. so if i were u, i'd probably start eating more cheese (a lot) maybe a stick or two a day. (or u can sneak it into your food)
*did u know that posture also affects your spine, which contributes to how tall u can be too? just look at all the tall people. most of the time, they should have good posture. if ur slumping, pick it up, straighten that spine.
Growth products : My choice is herbal ones like HELPO GROWTH FORMULA www.helpogrowthformula.com ( i think i gained 2 inches from it)
so here are the main points i want u to start doing (and if u want, u can tell me if ur seeing results):
-eat more cheese
-keep getting enough sleep(try to aim for 8 or more)
-eat the vegetables with vitamin k (like spinach, asparagus and broccoli)
-eat lots of protein (meat, chicken, or fish)
-eat cereal with vitamin d (u also get this naturally from the sun! smile.gif but not too much.
-eat boiled eggs! (my chemistry teacher is also really health conscious and he said eggs fill u up the best.)
-treat urself to some chocolate every now and then. u know the rules. but i would eat dark chocolate since that actually gives u some nutrients and milk chocolate contains more hormones which might make u break out. (this is for some people)
-stretching/running/leg exercises help give room for your bones to expand, exercising destroys bone (i need to double check on that one) but after a day of resting, it grow back a little bit bigger!
-drink milk! it is so important, yet it's easy to forget sometimes. so drink it!
- Helpo Growth Formula is a good product to combine with all stuff above alternatively.
i think that's everything.. sorry i went on and on. i hope that helped you out! smile.gif
it looks pretty good.
Balance
I don't know about the loading up on dairy products, but the rest are reasonable.

Instead of the running, I would stress stretching and yoga. Running and weight lifting shortens your muscles, stretching elongates. Elongating muscles would mean standing taller, becoming taller... kind of.

Calcium, protein, tight core and back muscles with a good posture will help you stand tall and appear tall.
rpenner
Except muscles have little to contribute to your height.

What is known is that a protein-rich diet in childhood causes a population to have larger adult heights. This was clearly seen in Europe and Asia, when diets changed.

Hormone therapy can have an effect on individuals, as well. But that needs to be medically supervised.

Post-childhood, I doubt there is much that can be done to gain height, but collapse of the cartilage-jelly disks in the spine tends to be a source of loss of height for older adults.
DuzmA
QUOTE (Balance+Dec 6 2010, 02:45 PM)
I don't know about the loading up on dairy products, but the rest are reasonable.

Instead of the running, I would stress stretching and yoga. Running and weight lifting shortens your muscles, stretching elongates. Elongating muscles would mean standing taller, becoming taller... kind of.

Calcium, protein, tight core and back muscles with a good posture will help you stand tall and appear tall.

I'm interested. If you become taller by stretching and doing yoga will your children then be taller than they would have had you not employed stretching and yoga?


P.S: Had to throw a shout out to Lamarck, so rarely does the chance to do so arise.
UniScience.Info
There is a wiki page about Human Height. wiki/Human_height.
Impressive article.
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