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Short or Tall
Can You Calculate Your Child's Final Height?
Parents need to look for the "nadir" (when a child seems to stop growing in their usual manner) in their child's height. For example, if a child who is growing an inch to inch and a quarter every six months stops growing abruptly, this is the nadir in growth. This child is about to begin puberty and experience the most rapid growth they have had in their outer uterine life. Then add 11 inches for a boy, 10 inches for a girl. There are multiple milestones, as I describe in The Growth Spurt, and parents should look for these milestones to see what stage their child is in (after the nadir) and calculate from there.
Obese children due to the hormones produced in their fat cells grow quicker, since these hormones are growth promoting. Unfortunately for them these hormones fuse their growth plates prematurely; thus they are ultimately shorter than their genetic potential.
Excellent studies prove that children who drink sugary soda are calcium deficient, which can affect growth.
Fruits and vegetables benefit growth due to their effect on the kidneys, which helps decrease calcium excretion. It is not only enough to ingest the necessary calcium for growth; one must retain it. Fruits and vegetables cause the kidneys to retain the calcium ingested by s and not excrete it in the urine.
