Author: Senior Qinghua
Nowadays, many parents attach great importance to their children's height.
Sometimes a centimeter away, it will be too nervous to do it.
Because it is related to the child's future development and career planning.
For example, pilots have a height requirement of more than 1 meter 7 for men.
The model's height requirement for women is more than 1 meter 75, or even 1 meter 8.
There are also athletes, policemen, broadcast hosts, diplomats, etc., all of which have certain requirements for height.
It can be clearly said that under normal circumstances, the higher the height of the child, the greater the space for future development, and the child himself will be more confident in the face of various challenges in society.
So, what factors determine the height of a child?
Dr. Lilac once emphasized in a popular science article:
The factors that determine a child's height mainly include parental genetics, late nutrition, and growth hormone.
Among them, parental inheritance is an objective condition, and the future trend determined by genes is often that we can't influence it.
The abnormal short stature caused by too little growth hormone is a disease that requires parents to take their children to see a doctor for scientific diagnosis and treatment.
Therefore, among these three factors, the only thing we can do and work hard is late nutrition.
In the case that genes determine 70% of the height, we parents can still tap the remaining 30% of the height potential through a balanced diet.
The people eat for heaven!
Your child's diet is really important for body shape and intellectual development!
How much does diet help with height?
Xiaoxin, an 11-year-old girl, recently became a physical education representative again.
This position, which was originally exclusive to boys, was repeatedly taken by a girl.
Mainly because Xiaoxin's height of 163 cm is too stand out in the fifth grade class of primary school.
Since the third grade of primary school, Xiao Xin has taken over the position of the last row and will always be the highest one in the class.
Coupled with her love of various sports, cheerful personality, good at dealing with classmates, so every time when electing class cadres, the physical education teacher will focus on Xiaoxin.
Xiaoxin's mother is also very proud of this, and every time she talks about her children with her neighbors, she will intentionally or unintentionally mention Xiaoxin's height.
This also makes the neighbor mothers very envious.
They asked Xiao Xin's mother for the secret of the patriarch, wondering if she had given the child any Chinese medicine to increase the height.
Who knows Xiaoxin's mother generously revealed: I did not give her anything to eat, just three meals a day, balanced nutrition, rich dishes, this is enough!
XiaoXinma's scientific concept of raising babies has been recognized and praised by pediatricians.
But the neighbor mothers didn't believe it.
"We also often give our children fish, meat, and bone broth, so why don't they grow so tall?"
To solve this question, you must first carefully go through the child's recipes and carefully select every food the child has eaten.
Not only staple foods, but also snacks.
Strictly limit the snacks that are not conducive to the health of children, and never let children eat more.
Because only a healthy and balanced diet can better promote the growth of children.
Eat a balanced diet
The first is to eat less foods that are high in sugar.
For example, candy, chocolate, cakes, bread with various sweet fillings, pastries, biscuits.
Eating too much of this dessert snack will not only cause the child to develop the habit of partial eating, but also cause the child to gain weight.
Because the total intake of the child in a day is stable, if you eat too many high-sugar snacks, then you will also eat less vegetables and fruits that are conducive to the health of the child.
If you consume too much sugar and don't do enough physical exercise to consume it, it will eventually turn into fat accumulation in your child's body.
Secondly, fried foods and carbonated drinks must be eaten less.
Especially fried chicken, French fries and other high-calorie and high-fat snacks.
Parents should never buy and eat for their children just because they spoil their children.
These fried foods will not only make children easily "addicted", causing children to resist eating healthy green staple foods and vegetables, but also produce a lot of harmful substances after high temperature fried food.
Previously, there have been some scientific experiments to prove:
Acrylamide is produced during the processing of food, especially substances rich in aspartic acid and reducing sugars at high temperatures (above 120 ° C).
This substance has potential neurotoxicity, genotoxicity, reproductive toxicity and carcinogenicity, which can cause teratogenicity and carcinogenicity in animals.
Prolonged exposure to acrylamide can lead to genetic alterations and chromosomal abnormalities, which can induce tumors to cause cancer.
What foods contain acrylamide?
The average content of potato fried food is 780μg/kg;
The average content of cereal fried foods is 150μg/kg;
The average content of cereal baked goods is 130μg/kg;
See?
These three types of fried baked goods are basically the favorites of many children now.
If this aspect of diet is not controlled, it is easy to cause harm to the child's health.
As for carbonated drinks, not to mention.
It is a food that can directly affect the absorption of calcium in children.
When a child is in childhood and adolescence, it is an important period of bone development.
If they are allowed to "drink" a variety of carbonated drinks, even if the parents' genes are good, they may be short because of a serious lack of calcium intake in the later stage.
Therefore, everything should have a degree, and some snacks may have little impact on the body once or twice.
Once the child is "addicted" to this snack, it is likely to fall into a vicious circle.
The more junk food is eaten, the less healthy food is eaten.
Exercise reasonably
However, in addition to eating, proper exercise will also promote the child's growth to a certain extent.
Studies have found that scientific exercise promotes the secretion of growth hormone.
In particular, jumping and stretching exercises can effectively stimulate bone scale and make children grow faster and taller.
In addition, more outdoor exercise with children can also improve children's emotional and mental health.
For example, jumping, running, touching heights, playing ball, jumping rope, swimming and other sports are very beneficial for children to grow taller.
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Children and Adolescents in China recommend:
Preschool children, the amount of exercise per day can be unlimited time and intensity;
Children aged 6-17 should ensure more than 60 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise every day.
Scientific and reasonable exercise can balance the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus throughout the body, accelerate the deposition of minerals in the bone, so that children can give full play to the potential of growing tall.
Get enough sleep
And finally, sleep!
For children to grow taller, whether the child sleeps well or not is equally important.
Experts explain: The effect of sleep on height is mainly through growth hormone.
During the 1 hour that your child falls asleep at night, growth hormone in the body reaches a peak.
At this time, the crazy secretion of growth hormone will effectively promote the child's growth.
Therefore, it is also very helpful for children to establish regular and adequate sleep habits for children to grow taller.
So what's enough?
Here's a schedule of getting enough sleep for your child, which parents can bookmark.
But there is also an objective fact that must be recognized that there are some differences in the growth and development of each child.
Sleep one hour less, one more hour, and if the child does not have other physical development abnormalities, that is normal.
Parents need to judge whether sleep is enough from the child's overall daily performance.
For example, on the second day, whether the child has frequent yawns, mental malaise, drowsiness and other abnormal phenomena.
If there are the above conditions, it means that there was not enough sleep last night, and parents need to adjust the child's sleep time in time.
As we all know, every parent has an obsession with the height of their children: that is, the offspring must be taller than themselves.
In addition, there is still an unusual bias against height in the market:
Men who are less than 170 in height are "second-degree cripple";
Women who are less than 155 in height will be considered unable to marry;
This concept of height discrimination, although criticized by the general public, is also a standard of measurement in the minds of many people.
And this set of standards is also applicable to a certain extent to future job search, communication, love, marriage and so on.
Under the influence of various factors, most parents have some inexplicable anxiety about their children's height.
As a result, parents blindly supplement calcium to their children, take various "heightening drugs", buy a lot of unknown health care products and other strange phenomena, have appeared in various social hot news.
This way of raising seedlings and promoting the growth of seedlings has finally reaped a lot of bad results without exception.
Some children have precocious puberty;
Some children even enter the skeletal line closure in advance and no longer grow taller for life;
Because some parents lack scientific common sense, such tragedies have occurred repeatedly.
Therefore, Xiaobian hopes that the parents who have read this article can react in time and no longer use these side-door and left-way enhancement methods.
A balanced diet, proper exercise, coupled with adequate sleep, all these external favorable factors can be grasped in order to make children have a higher "higher" possibility.