Every parent wants their children to be tall, and hope that their height is relatively high, after all, having an outstanding height will greatly improve their own image and will be deeply remembered by others.
Just like basketball star Yao Ming, when everyone mentions him, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely his height of 2.26 meters, and because of this height advantage, he can get a place in the star-studded NBA and achieve good results in his career.
You can see how important being tall can directly affect your life and career.
A child's height is influenced by both innate genetics and acquired exercise, and is also linked to sex. Boys are generally taller than girls, but boys also develop later and are shorter than girls before puberty.
Let's refer to the Boys and Girls Growth Index Table to see if their children are up to standard in height at their age.
1. Just born
The basic height of newborn babies is about 49-53 cm, and with each stage of development and nutrient intake, the body level begins to show a gap.
2. Around one to four years old
The baby's height will be around 76.5 cm at the age of one, and it will grow by about 10 cm at the age of two, and the height will grow at about 8 cm per year at the age of three or four, and reach 102-105 cm at the age of four.
3. Puberty to about 18 years of age
This stage is the stage of rapid development of children, and the height of children will increase rapidly.
Basically to around the age of 18, the child's height will be fixed, boys generally reach more than 1.72 meters, and girls are mostly between 1.6-1.68 meters, which is a relatively normal height growth range.
What do you think of growth data?
There is a median in the height reference table, which is the range range range for measuring children. There is a certain plus-minus difference between the child's height and the median, as long as the plus or minus does not exceed 1 SD, the height is the normal range.
However, if it is too low, parents should pay attention to the height of their children, and take acquired exercise and assistance in time to promote the growth of height.
What are the factors that affect height growth?
1. Nutritional imbalance
For newborn babies, a reasonable and balanced intake of nutrition is the biggest guarantee for height growth, if it is nutritional imbalance or malnutrition, it will affect the secretion of growth hormone in the body and affect the growth.
Therefore, the baby should be fed breast milk or milk powder six months ago to ensure that their most basic nutrients and calcium iron ions supplement, after six months breast milk can not meet the needs of calcium substances, it is necessary to add complementary foods in time, from the food intake is conducive to the baby's growth of nutrients.
For adolescent developing children, nutritional balance is equally important, to ensure that protein and vitamins are consumed every day, and to maintain a reasonable diet and nutritional mix.
If in the stage of adolescent development, dietary imbalance, insufficient intake of protein and other nutrients, or picky eating, too much diet garbage and fried food, which will hinder height growth.
2. Lack of sleep
Growth hormone secretion value reaches a peak at night, sufficient sleep can stimulate the secretion of growth hormone, children should fall asleep around nine o'clock in the evening, enter a deep sleep state after ten o'clock, only to ensure the effectiveness of sleep, will not affect the growth of the head.
Lack of sleep will make the brain unable to get rest, which will affect the development and perfection of the pituitary gland, which in turn will lead to low growth.
Now many parents like to stay up late, children see their parents stay up late with their parents, unwilling to sleep, do not know that this will have a serious impact on the child's growing height.
3. Insufficient amount of exercise
Height is genetically influenced, but more critical is the acquired workout. If you don't exercise enough, you can't stimulate the bones.
At present, children's academic pressure is greater, and they lack sufficient activity time to study all day and cannot receive more outdoor light, which will affect height development.
If parents want to make their children tall, they must follow reasonable growth requirements, take their children out to exercise, and also pay attention to the role of sleep and diet, and multi-pronged to promote children to have a tall height.