A height survey of 65 million children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 19 around the world, published in the medical journal Lancet, found that the tallest countries were significantly taller than the shortest countries 20 cm, the reason is from "nutrition"! The doctor reminded that to break through the genetic limit of height, if you can achieve "these three points", you can help your child grow.
In the world's height ranking, Taiwan ranks 57th.
Imperial College of Technology analyzed the height reports of 65 million children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 around the world. The average height is the highest in the Netherlands. The average height of boys is 182.6 cm. Taiwan's teenage boys ranked 57th among 193 countries, with an average height of 174.5 cm, only 174.9 centimeters behind the 52nd-ranked Korean teenage boys in Asia. According to the survey, the height of Taiwanese and Korean teenagers has grown by 8 cm in 35 years, and the increase rate is the highest, even surpassing some European and American countries. Hong Kong ranked 68th with an average height of 173.6 cm for boys, and China ranked 93rd with an average height of 171.8 cm for boys.
Nutrition policies can't just focus on childhood, but also in adolescence.
Although genetics is an important factor in determining height and weight, diet and nutrition are just as important as the environment, the researchers analyzed. At the same time, it is also found that the current global focus on dietary nutrition is too concentrated on children aged 0 to 5 years old, but in fact, before adolescence and adolescence, dietary nutrition is also very important for future growth.
3 toTips to help break through the height limit
Taiwan's teenagers' height surge has something to do with modern parents' desperate efforts to help their children "turn to adults"? Xie Mingjia, deputy director of the Intelligent Diabetes and Metabolic Sports Center of the Hospital Affiliated to China Medical University, said that the height of the previous generation of Taiwanese was not high, but in recent years, when I went to the school, I found that there are many more than 180. Although genetics is the main key to affecting height , but if you can achieve 3 points, it is expected to break through the genetic limit of height.
1. Pay attention to nutrition and sunbathing
Xie Mingjia said that in the past, it was good for children to have enough to eat, but in the past 20 to 30 years, parents will pay attention to the nutrition of children and adolescents, and there are even plans to drink milk at school to increase calcium And protein absorption, it is very helpful to grow taller.
Nutrition is very important. The Dutch, who has won the world's tallest "long man" for several years in a row, is said to have an average height of only 165 centimeters in 1860, significantly shorter than the 173 centimeters of American soldiers. But then they paid attention to breakfast nutrition. After 150 years, the average height of men was 182 cm and girls 170 cm.
Xie Mingjia reminded that supplementing calcium and protein nutrition can help increase the height, but if vitamin D is deficient, the help is limited. He reminded that in the past, children and adolescents did not have computers or mobile phones, and they all played ball and ran outside in the sun. Now children faint when exposed to the sun. The most common leisure activity is to play 3C games. Lack of vitamin D may affect their height in the future. It is recommended to go out in the sun more and eat more foods containing vitamin D, such as sun-dried mushrooms, liver, egg yolks, cereals, dairy products and deep-sea fish.
2. Strengthening bouncing exercise
Exercise is also an important part of breaking through height restrictions. Xie Mingjia said, especially running, jumping and other sports that can stimulate the growth plate, playing basketball and volleyball with bouncing sports, even if you can play without a partner, skipping rope at home is also a good way. In a 2010 project by Yang Ming University and the Ministry of Education, it was found that children who were asked to skip rope for 30 minutes a day for 20 consecutive weeks were on average 1.5 centimeters taller than those who did not. Children who skip rope can increase the control ability of the vagus nerve and sympathetic nerve, not only promote the height and improve the regulation of the autonomic nervous system, but also make the children smarter and have better learning performance.
3. Go to bed earlier
The study of the American Sleep Research Center pointed out that 30% of height depends on the day after tomorrow, and the biggest influence is "sleep"! Xie Mingjia reminded that getting enough sleep is the key to growing taller, because growth hormone is secreted the highest at night when you fall asleep. According to the brain secretion curve, the two periods when growth hormone is secreted the most are from 9:00 pm to 1:00 pm in the middle of the night, and from 5:00 am to 7:00 am. He said that he remembered that when he was in elementary school, his parents stipulated that he must go to bed before 9 o'clock in the evening, and it was only relaxed to 10 o'clock in the middle school. Nowadays, parents are very late to bed, causing their children to go to bed late, but if they do not let their children fall asleep during these two periods, they may miss the golden opportunity for their children to grow taller!
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