What are the factors that determine height?

Now everyone's life is getting better and better, and children's nutritional needs are also met, so many children now grow very fast and become tall. However, there are always many parents who worry about their children's future height. Some parents are worried when they see that their children are not as tall as others. So, what are the factors that determine height? Many people are still unclear about this, so please see the detailed introduction below.

There are two periods of fastest physical growth in life: from birth to 1 year old, and during puberty. Adult height is reached during late adolescence to early 20s. Adult height is determined by both genetic and environmental factors.

The main reasons that affect height are as follows:

Genetics: Most children of tall parents are usually taller; those of short parents are usually shorter. But this is only one factor. If the child has good conditions in other aspects, he or she will also have a certain height when he or she grows up.

Nutrition: Calcium, vitamin D and protein are the nutrients that most affect human height. They have a huge impact on height. Many people with good congenital factors do not grow very tall due to malnutrition.

Exercise: Exercise can stimulate the pituitary gland to produce more growth hormone, so people who exercise regularly usually have taller growth hormones than those who exercise less.

Sleep: Since the pituitary gland only produces growth hormone when humans sleep, it affects height.

Development: The order of development greatly affects human height. Girls are generally shorter than boys because women generally develop earlier. This is why girls are taller than boys in elementary school. However, boys develop later, so a boy with average conditions will be taller than a girl with excellent conditions by high school at the latest. There will also be a difference in height between early and late maturing boys. A late-maturing boy may not start to develop until the age of fourteen to sixteen. Because he takes a longer time to grow taller (generally it takes boys about 20 years to grow taller), he will be taller than an early-maturing boy in the later stage.

What are the determining factors of height? There are many factors that affect height, including genetics, nutrition, exercise, sleep, disease, etc. Therefore, for children, we must not only provide them with adequate nutrition, but also let them exercise more, develop good work and rest habits, and let children grow up healthily. However, everyone's development time is slightly different, so parents should not be too anxious about this.