Growing taller
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Growing taller
hey I heard that wai's diet can make you taller is this true any body grow taller at past 20 years?What about wai diet could make you taller?
They just recently finished up a study in Kenya which found that the limiting factors on height growth are not having enough vitamin A, couple of Bs, and calcium and iron in our diets.
The study found that people can get as much as an extra 4 inches of height growth by having the extra vitamins (the argument from the conclusions made from the study was actually to implement suplements into meat products in 3rd world countries).
Logically speaking the Wai diet gives you all the vitamins and minerals you need every day and then some. So by having all your vitamins and minerals you need, your growing to your maximum potential.
A good example of malnutrition for height is to compare Japanese and Chinese people over the past 75 years gaining several inches in each generation due to having better diets.
On a related note, I'm currently 18 and haven't grown since I was 16, however, i've been continuously on the wai diet for over 6 months consecutively, and although I haven't measured myself, as of a week ago I started feeling a little taller, and i've been comparing myself to objects all over the house. I am not sure if this is wishful thinking or not, but I don't wanna jinx is (i'm fairly superstitous), so I think i'll wait few months till I measure my height next (I turn 19 in August, my Mom stopped growing at 12, my dad was around 16 I believe).
I hope this answers your questions.
--Adam
The study found that people can get as much as an extra 4 inches of height growth by having the extra vitamins (the argument from the conclusions made from the study was actually to implement suplements into meat products in 3rd world countries).
Logically speaking the Wai diet gives you all the vitamins and minerals you need every day and then some. So by having all your vitamins and minerals you need, your growing to your maximum potential.
A good example of malnutrition for height is to compare Japanese and Chinese people over the past 75 years gaining several inches in each generation due to having better diets.
On a related note, I'm currently 18 and haven't grown since I was 16, however, i've been continuously on the wai diet for over 6 months consecutively, and although I haven't measured myself, as of a week ago I started feeling a little taller, and i've been comparing myself to objects all over the house. I am not sure if this is wishful thinking or not, but I don't wanna jinx is (i'm fairly superstitous), so I think i'll wait few months till I measure my height next (I turn 19 in August, my Mom stopped growing at 12, my dad was around 16 I believe).
I hope this answers your questions.
--Adam
Umm,
A generation of native-born Japanese, relatively short, consuming traditional foods. Let's say they move the the US and have a child. This child will grow to be probably much taller than his/her parents. Better diet? More like heavy dosages of bovine/growth hormones.
I'm just confused as to why you think the typical American diet is better than a traditional Asian one.
A generation of native-born Japanese, relatively short, consuming traditional foods. Let's say they move the the US and have a child. This child will grow to be probably much taller than his/her parents. Better diet? More like heavy dosages of bovine/growth hormones.
I'm just confused as to why you think the typical American diet is better than a traditional Asian one.
The increase in height from my parents generation is always put down to increased fat and protein intake - but that simply isn't true with all the people I know. All the people I know of that age were raised on high fat, high protein diets - lots of butter, lard, cream, suet (yuck), generous helpings of meat every day, regular cooked breakfasts (bacon, sausage, eggs, all fried)
They consumed MORE fat and protein.
The difference in the diets is that my generation ate lots of refined foods which are high on the glycaemic index. Generally the more processed a food is, the higher the GI. Sugary cereals instead of porridge, white bread instead of brown, lots of chocolate and sweets, bought biscuits and cakes, pizza (which sends insulin levels sky high and mysteriously keeps them high for a long time afterwards, which scientists can't explain), junk food.
High GI foods = higher levels of insulin growth factor, which makes children grow taller.
It also can lead to short sightedness - there was a scientific report a few years ago that said tall people are more likely to be short sighted, and this is because they ate more high gi foods, such as white potatoes, when they were children.
They consumed MORE fat and protein.
The difference in the diets is that my generation ate lots of refined foods which are high on the glycaemic index. Generally the more processed a food is, the higher the GI. Sugary cereals instead of porridge, white bread instead of brown, lots of chocolate and sweets, bought biscuits and cakes, pizza (which sends insulin levels sky high and mysteriously keeps them high for a long time afterwards, which scientists can't explain), junk food.
High GI foods = higher levels of insulin growth factor, which makes children grow taller.
It also can lead to short sightedness - there was a scientific report a few years ago that said tall people are more likely to be short sighted, and this is because they ate more high gi foods, such as white potatoes, when they were children.
Can you find that report? That is a pretty exotic claim.Cairidh wrote:It also can lead to short sightedness - there was a scientific report a few years ago that said tall people are more likely to be short sighted, and this is because they ate more high gi foods, such as white potatoes, when they were children.
Which claim is exotic?
I haven't a hope of finding the report I read a few years ago, but here's an article about short sightedness and insulin.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/heal ... 531782.htm
I haven't a hope of finding the report I read a few years ago, but here's an article about short sightedness and insulin.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/heal ... 531782.htm
I guess that we cannot rule out any possibilities, but Insuline Growth Factor causing the eyeball to grow into an elongated shape...The Centre for Myopic Research in Hong Kong reports that 70% of school-age children in Hong Kong have developed myopia...
...sounds kind of far-fetched to me....because it's one of the things that IGF does...
Why do none of the researchers look at the extensive research, and all the articles written, by Dr. Bates? Is it too long ago? Yet they look at a 1954 study, whereas Bates' work dates from the 1920's, I believe. It would be easy to repeat his experiments to prove him wrong, yet no one does that, and, to my knowledge, has never done until now.
so to reactivate the discussion on the height growth topic, no I haven't grown, I finally decided to measure myself, i have however found some interesting information on height growth.
Unfortunatly height growth is apparently a topic that still lacks thorough study, unlike say . . . cancer
I did find a couple of interesting tidbits from the New Yorker:
Biologists say that we achieve our stature in three spurts: the first in infancy, the second between the ages of six and eight, the last in adolescence. Any decent diet can send us sprouting at these ages, but take away any one of forty-five or fifty essential nutrients and the body stops growing. (“Iodine deficiency alone can knock off ten centimetres and fifteen I.Q. points,” one nutritionist told me.)
also
Steckel has found that Americans lose the most height to Northern Europeans in infancy and adolescence, which implicates pre- and post-natal care and teen-age eating habits. “If these snack foods are crowding out fruits and vegetables, then we may not be getting the micronutrients we need,” he says. In a recent British study, one group of schoolchildren was given hamburgers, French fries, and other familiar lunch foods; the other was fed nineteen-forties-style wartime rations such as boiled cabbage and corned beef. Within eight weeks, the children on the rations were both taller and slimmer than the ones on a regular diet.
from the same article.
Oh and there was a section in that article that I couldn't find that had something about a random study that found height increased for the number of cows in the area (more dairy and cow byproducts they assume, it was a survey so they didn't physically inquire about the diets, they just assumed that more cows in the area = more dairy consumption), although all data i've ever seen indicates that the growth hormones in milk do little more than to prematurely age your internal organs and accelerate various forms of toxin growth causing many forms of cancer.
Enter discussion here on why corned beef and cabbage can make you grow so much taller here (I would think better nutrients? But then again would boiling cabbage get rid of its nutritional value?)
--Adam
Unfortunatly height growth is apparently a topic that still lacks thorough study, unlike say . . . cancer
I did find a couple of interesting tidbits from the New Yorker:
Biologists say that we achieve our stature in three spurts: the first in infancy, the second between the ages of six and eight, the last in adolescence. Any decent diet can send us sprouting at these ages, but take away any one of forty-five or fifty essential nutrients and the body stops growing. (“Iodine deficiency alone can knock off ten centimetres and fifteen I.Q. points,” one nutritionist told me.)
also
Steckel has found that Americans lose the most height to Northern Europeans in infancy and adolescence, which implicates pre- and post-natal care and teen-age eating habits. “If these snack foods are crowding out fruits and vegetables, then we may not be getting the micronutrients we need,” he says. In a recent British study, one group of schoolchildren was given hamburgers, French fries, and other familiar lunch foods; the other was fed nineteen-forties-style wartime rations such as boiled cabbage and corned beef. Within eight weeks, the children on the rations were both taller and slimmer than the ones on a regular diet.
from the same article.
Oh and there was a section in that article that I couldn't find that had something about a random study that found height increased for the number of cows in the area (more dairy and cow byproducts they assume, it was a survey so they didn't physically inquire about the diets, they just assumed that more cows in the area = more dairy consumption), although all data i've ever seen indicates that the growth hormones in milk do little more than to prematurely age your internal organs and accelerate various forms of toxin growth causing many forms of cancer.
Enter discussion here on why corned beef and cabbage can make you grow so much taller here (I would think better nutrients? But then again would boiling cabbage get rid of its nutritional value?)
--Adam
Though I'll have to look into the biology behind it, this makes sense to me, as babies born to diabetic mothers, or mothers who had blood sugar problems during pregnancy, are much larger than normal.High GI foods = higher levels of insulin growth factor, which makes children grow taller.
My mom said she grew an inch or so in college. I just measured myself out of curiosity, and I'm 66 1/2". I always thought I was 66". I could be losing my mind. However, I know I was 65 1/2" at the end of high school, so people do continue to grow. I always was a bit slow.
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