Parents' mistakes can make their children short

Misunderstanding the issue of height growth, providing unbalanced nutrition or taking care of children too much are basic mistakes that many parents make.

Whether a child's height develops well or not depends largely on the way parents raise them. Experts warn that parents' mistakes can limit their child's ability to grow taller:

Believe that "short mothers cannot give birth to tall children"

The average height of Vietnamese people has only increased by 1 - 1.5 cm over the past 10 years. Most people believe that this is a result of genetics. Many parents, because of this concept, "accept their fate" and do not seek solutions to improve their height, causing their children to lose the opportunity to grow taller.

In fact, genetics only determines 23% of a child's height, the remaining 77% is due to nutrition, lifestyle, and exercise. If parents provide adequate nutrition, encourage their children to exercise actively, and develop healthy living habits, children can grow tall even if their parents are short.

Improper nutritional supplementation causes children to grow slowly.

Unbalanced nutrition for children

Nutrition is the factor that has the greatest influence on height development (accounting for 32%). Of which, calcium is always the first factor mentioned because this micronutrient directly affects bone development. Therefore, many people think that if you want to be taller, you must supplement as much calcium as possible. However, in many cases, excessive calcium supplementation leads to excess, causing a number of health problems such as constipation, anorexia, slow growth, etc.

According to advice from experts, if children want to grow taller effectively, nutrition needs to be "correct and sufficient". Calcium is very important and will be most effective if supplemented in the right amount according to age, especially ensuring the best absorption of calcium to avoid excess.

Besides calcium, the body also needs other groups of substances for comprehensive development such as Collagen Type II - a nutrient that gives flexibility and strength to bones, helping the cartilage layer to grow longer to increase height.

According to VNE