If not what else does it depend on?
2007-02-18 03:21:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
If you were to have proper nutrition, etc like some of you mention, would it be possible to grow taller than your parents?
2007-02-18 03:28:22 · update #1
No - basically the other major factor is nutrition... a poor diet during the growing phase (up to about age 18-20) will mean that a person won't grow to their full potential height. Other factors such as exercise have a relatively minor influence under most normal conditions. Exercise may have some influence on height but exerts more influence on actual bone strength.
In other words, we have a "genetic height" which we are programmed to reach but will only do so under ideal nutritional conditions.
"Genetic height" is not just inherited from your parents but from older generations as well. There is no single gene which influences height and each person carries two copies of each "height gene", only one of which is expressed in the height of the person and the other is "hidden" (called "recessive").
This means that being tall, for example, can "skip" one or more generations.
As an example, both your parents could be short but could carry "tall" genes inherited from their parents. They could pass these genes on to you so that you could be taller than your parents.
2007-02-18 03:23:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a healthy person who maintains a nutritional balanced diet, genetics are the only factor to determine height. Therefore, nothing one can do to increase height. They are genetically predisposed to reach a specific height.
Other cases which determine height are simply diseases, disorders and/or birth defects which HINDER the genetic growth rate. In some of these cases, growth hormone therapy can help a person reach a normal height. But growth hormones will only effect children and some adolescents who are still growing. The later in life they take GH, the less effect it will have. Though, growth hormone is known to help with tissue building, damage repair and many other benefits in adults, but has no effect on height.
2007-02-18 03:31:01 · answer #2 · answered by S H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, I think our DNA is programmed at a certain height. However, certain factors can change this, such as poor nutrition, growth hormone problems, etc. For me, I am shorter than anticipated because I had scoliosis and thought it was fixed, it is not completely straight.
2007-02-18 03:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by Jay Jay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, if you could visit old churches, notably more than 200yo, you may get a small idea of what Gulliver must have felt like, when sitting on dwarfed seats . Food intake, disease-free youth (thanks to systemic vaccinations) have increased expected heights of even first generation offspring of immigrants.
2007-02-18 03:31:49 · answer #4 · answered by ju21 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not only other facters can effect this as stated before. genetics are that basis of your height though. generally your going to be a certain height unless something happens to stunt your growth.
2007-02-18 03:26:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does.
All of those pills that supposedly make you grow really don't work. Your height depends on your family tree!
2007-02-18 03:25:37 · answer #6 · answered by GCTA 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no. nutrition, excercise, sleep, etc.
2007-02-18 03:25:00 · answer #7 · answered by ip 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mostly, what you eat plays a factor.
2007-02-18 03:25:25 · answer #8 · answered by Christina H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋