I'm 23 and 6'5 230 lbs of muscle (I play football) and growing up I just ate a lot of candy and a few snacks every day (gummy bears, nerds, starbursts, ect). I never had a taste for meat or anything that has protein. Would I have grown bigger if I got better nutrition growing up?
2007-02-26 11:59:11 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
230 lbs at 6'5 is rather light for a football player. you could have easily been 280 and muscular with the right diet and training program
2007-02-26 12:33:57 · answer #1 · answered by lv_consultant 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well yes good daily nutrition makes your bones grow healthy and makes the compact bone more dense (good thing). Candy doesn't make you shrink but the really bad thing about candy is that it has sugars that make you really hyper for 2-3 minutes and then it just runs out of energy and too much of this is not good for tyour body. Its also bad for your teeth!
My friend is 14 and he had an interesting story: His mother neglected to feed him milk so he was fed milk formula. He grew up not drinking milk or eating much fruits. Now at the age of 14 he is really big but his immune system is weak because of malnourishment when younger.
So because you didn't eat much meat but ate candy, doesn't mean that you wouldn't have grown bigger but that you r immune system might have weakened.
2007-02-26 12:15:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋