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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP again, I paid close attention to their nutrition during their growing years, especially the one who was predicted to be 5’11” who is now 6’3.25” [/quote]

There is no way you made four inches of difference by making sure they ate organic spinach or whatever. That would be the difference between a famine and enough calories.[/quote]
The only difference I can see is that the food being consumed has nutritional value rather than being "plastic food".

You can be "normal" weight and have malnutrition because the food being consumed is not nutrtious. That's gotta impact growth and health.

But, most people here have a decent enough diet where they are not malnutrioned.

This is moslty genetic.

But, I'll throw in my anecdote.

DS has *always* been small.  I'm super petite; DH is very tall (6'+).    DS is a late bloomer, but we also assumed he'd be like 5'10 maybe based on the height predictor formula.  His bone age is behind his real age.

DS 17 just had his checkup. He's 5'8.5", and still on the upward trajectory of growth according to his  pediatrician.  The ped thinks DS will reach about 6'.  If I look at the height chart, and peg DS at 15 or so yrs on the chart and go to age 20 from there, DS just might reach 6' or there abouts.

DH also was a late bloomer and grew a lot after 15 until 20 or 21, like a foot or so within that timeframe. That would be like 2" or so every year, and that's the growth pattern DS has had since childhood --- 2" give or take every year.  Obviously in the last few years, growth tapers off, but if DS grows another 2" this year, and 1" or so in total  from 18 to 20, then he's knocking on 6'. So, the pediatrician would be on target. 
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