Anonymous
Post 12/01/2023 08:35     Subject: My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
Anonymous wrote:A simple Google search shows that milk indeed does make a difference and promotes growth in kids.

The mommy milk haters are wrong.



Because so many people are deficient in vitamin D. Plus milk it one is the easiest ways for kids to get calcium. Most kids are not eating many non-dairy high calcium foods and certainly not in large quantities.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2023 08:29     Subject: My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
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Anonymous wrote:MILK, sleep and daily vitamins



Stop repeating 50 year old propaganda from corrupt corporations.


Dutch people are among the world’s tallest. Lots of dairy


My son hadn’t had milk since he was two years old. He hates it - only drinks water. He is almost 6’2” at 13.

“Got milk? “ etc was definitely propaganda. You should look into the story, it’s fascinating.


Propaganda? You are insane. Milk is extremely nutritious. It is an excellent source of vitamins, (natural) calcium, other minerals, fats, protein. It is probably the healthiest beverage a child/teen will drink. Far better than juice, soda, energy drink, Prime, etc.


It certainly ain’t healthier than water. Sorry you fell for the BS, but no need to double down.


Many of these pro milk posters are probably Indian. Drinking milk and consuming dairy (yogurt, cheese) products is a huge part of the culture.


What are you talking about? Milk is heathy and an excellent source of many nutrients and most kids/teens like it? What is your problem? I don’t claim it will make your child significantly taller, but to say it is unhealthy simple isn’t true. Sure you can get nutrients elsewhere, no one has to drink milk. But doing so is heathy and fine.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2023 08:16     Subject: My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
A simple Google search shows that milk indeed does make a difference and promotes growth in kids.

The mommy milk haters are wrong.

Anonymous
Post 12/01/2023 08:04     Subject: Re:My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
I am adopted Korean - I know my birth siblings in Korea. I grew up in America eating pasta, meat and drinking a gallon of milk a week.

I am 5’7” and my sisters in Korea are 5’4”. Nutrition has a big part of how I am so much taller.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2023 07:44     Subject: My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
My husband is American burn Chinese. He is significantly more muscular than his siblings born in China. He ate more meat and more dairy. His brother is taller than him though. Our son is naturally athletic with a 12 pack at age 8 but shorter than most if his peers. He’s a bottomless pit but doesn’t drink milk. He literally stopped drinking it once he turned 4. I discovered he likes egg nog. So I gained it to him everyday during holiday season. I wish it was sold year round. I think I’m going to start making it in January. I’m hopeful he grows but he might just take after his Asian genes. I’m always hoping he shoots up like my dad to 6’1. Honestly the best thing you can do is build their confidence. Kids are mean about height especially to boys. My son knows and is confident enough to say I don’t care. Feed your kids but focus on what they can do. Remind them people are all different shapes and sizes.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2023 07:00     Subject: My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
Anonymous wrote:Michael Jordan wished he was taller when he was 15 and 5'10. His mom told him to put salt in his shoes and pray. His dad told him, "You have it in your heart. The tallness is within you. You can be as tall as you want to be in your thinking." Michael Jordan ended up 6'6" while one brother is 5'4" and the other 5'5".


This post stuck with me and although I don’t believe it, it’s funny so I’ve been telling my kids for two days if they want to grow taller they can. Just believe it. They aren’t that little so I get an eye roll.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2023 06:13     Subject: Re:My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
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Anonymous wrote:Barring malnourishment or a genuine medical issue- it‘s all in the genes. All.

You won’t know a thing about their eventual sizes until after puberty- which very often brings major surprises. Plenty of kids end up unexpectedly short or unexpectedly tall (as compared to their parents)- taking after other relatives. Some kids are tall when young but stop growing early and end up short-average. Others are tiny when young but end up very tall. No way to predict (absent medical testing).

All of this stuff about milk, vitamins, sleep etc is nonsense- in the context of a healthy American kid whose pediatrician has no concerns. Which I’m sure is the case here.


These are Asians giving these recommendations

It is true that the Asian mindset might be that a healthy mind makes a healthy body and physical activity is also emphasized. Honestly, I am so jealous of older Asian folk exercising at the gym and being lean and into physical activity, and then there is my mom and FIL, just sitting and moaning that they are not called and how they are miserable. You tell them to go do something, and they are asking what, there is nothing for me to do. They have sciatica, diabetes, hurting leg, headache, high blood pressure... so all those exercising are just in great health?
I am not saying that many white people don't exercise and have activities and that many Asian people are never exercising, I am just saying that it has been my perception that the ethnic Asian population in the U.S. in my gym and in my neighborhood appears to be more active than the older white population.
However, if a growing kid is not eating enough, signing up for a sport will only burn more calories and prevent the maximum height potential.

Maybe it is good health that allows people to exercise, rather than revising causing good health.
Anonymous
Post 12/01/2023 06:09     Subject: Re:My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
My son is growing very fast and is the tallest in his class. I prioritize sleep for him, and nutrition/meals. During sport season, he will ask and eat two dinners with the one after being carbs — spaghetti, etc. He drinks a lot of milk and water. To be honest, I don’t know if any of this helps or if it all comes down to genes. However, I am the shortest in my family, and looking back, I really should have been getting an extra meal due to my high-burning calorie sport, and sufficient sleep.
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2023 07:14     Subject: My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
Why you want to be tall though?
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2023 07:03     Subject: My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
Focus on why they want to be taller/bigger. Why do they feel lacking where they are (which sounds pretty average, tbh)?
Anonymous
Post 11/29/2023 06:32     Subject: My kids want to grow. How can I help them?
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Anonymous wrote:Are they willing to do the work? Ok, here goes.

Basketball, running, lots of stretching exercises (pull ups on bars), yoga, swimming - every day.

Lots of good nutritious food. Don't give them junk or fried food. Severely limit added sugar and processed foods. Give them good quality organic protein, and lots of green and colorful veggies. Whole grain plant based foods. Organic dairy.

Multivitamin every day.

Good personal hygiene and home hygiene.

Good quality sleep.



Does this really do it??


Yes, if done before puberty. Once the space between bones are closed and there is no space for the bones to grow (as they will touch each other), the bone stops growing. That is the reason that height is predicted by "bone age" which measures how much space to grow exists between two bones. However, before the space between the bones are closed, you can "stretch" your bones as it is still being "built" by good nutrition, exercise, hygiene and sleep. Mainly you are stretching and building your growing bones. Good hygiene is important so that your body's energy goes towards growth and not towards fighting germs.

Running, jumping, stretching etc elongates the existing bones and helps in making the bones stronger. Also it makes the skeletal muscles stronger and stretches the vertebras too. By just doing yoga and improving posture you can gain an inch of height.

Some endocrinologists recommend taking a calcium-magnesium-d3 and K2 MK7 supplement too. But, a very well balanced, organic and nutritious diet can probably take care of all the important minerals.


No. This is NOT how it works. Google "epiphyseal plates."

The epiphyseal plates are the growth sites, but bones don't keep growing until the "touch each other." Somebody made that up out of whole cloth.