What factors affect height?

Nowadays, almost everyone wants to be taller, which will give them a great advantage in future employment and love, and they will also look better in temperament. However, many parents are worried that their children will not grow tall. They get anxious when they see other children of the same age are taller than their own children. So, what factors affect height? The main factors related to height are as follows.

Nutritional factors: Adolescents are in a stage of rapid growth and must continuously absorb various nutrients from the outside as the material basis for growth and development. An unreasonable diet with nutrient deficiency or excess (such as excessive protein intake) will not only affect development, but also lead to malnutrition and various nutritional deficiencies. Long-term malnutrition affects the maturity and length of bones, causing the bones to fail to reach their proper length when healing, resulting in short stature.

Sports: Sports and physical labor are the most powerful factors in promoting physical development and enhancing physical fitness. They can not only comprehensively promote the body's metabolism and enhance the functional development of the respiratory and cardiovascular systems, but also promote physical development, especially the development of bones and muscles, under reasonable nutrition.

Lifestyle habits: A reasonable arrangement of a regular and rhythmic life system can ensure that young people have enough outdoor activities and appropriate study time. Regular meals and adequate sleep can promote their growth and development. Growth hormone, which promotes height growth, is closely related to sleep. The growth hormone secreted at night is more than three times that of the day. During sleep, the epiphyseal cartilages of the spine, legs, and joints are all in a relaxed state, free from the pressure of the body and the influence of gravity. They can stretch freely, which is beneficial to bone development.

Impact of disease: Any acute or chronic disease that causes physiological dysfunction can have a direct impact on children's growth and development. The extent of the impact depends on the location of the lesion, the duration of the disease, and its severity. For example, adolescents suffering from schistosomiasis and endemic goiter have significantly shorter heights. Chronic bronchial asthma can affect the growth of children's height and weight. Acute infectious diseases in childhood, such as measles, whooping cough, and acute intestinal infections, often affect growth and development if not treated properly or if there are complications.

Influence of climate and season: Climate and season have significant impact on growth and development in terms of height and weight. Generally, height grows fastest in spring, and weight grows fastest in autumn. The height increase in the three months from March to May is approximately 2.0-2.5 times the height increase from July to November. Outdoor activities in spring increase the body's exposure to sunlight, which increases vitamin D in the body, thus benefiting the precipitation and absorption of calcium in the bones.

Impact of environmental pollution: Pollution caused by industrialization can not only cause various diseases, but also affect the physical and mental health of children and adolescents. According to the survey, children in areas polluted by sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, sulfuric acid and floating dust containing lead, copper, zinc and arsenic are significantly more likely to be thin than those in the control areas.

What factors affect height? We have already introduced several factors related to height. In fact, the more critical ones are nutritional factors, exercise factors, lifestyle habits and the influence of diseases. Therefore, I hope that parents will not only provide their children with good dietary nutrition, but also pay attention to their children's physical exercise so that their children can grow and develop healthily.