I'm 13 years old and 5'1. I really want to grow taller. What should I do to grow taller?

Question

Are there any types of food that can help growth? I play basketball very often and yet it doesnt help me grow. I need help!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

i would say you should appreciate how you are. it's quite natural to want to grow taller. for example, i want to grow taller too. ok. the usual way to grow taller is to stretch daily and practice exercising. also, you can eat a little more, but not too much that you can grow fat. i've been growing taller these days. it might help. good luck ;-)

Answer 2

Food won't make you grow taller and neither will playing basketball. Where did you get that idea?? You will be as tall as your DNA dictates. Just eat a healthy diet and learn to accept however tall you turn out to be. And contrary to what someone said, you don't have 5-7 years more growth to look forward to. More like 4-5. The growth plates at the ends of the long bones fuse at age 17-18 and all vertical growth stops.

Answer 3

I wouldn't expect playing basketball to help you grow?!?

How tall you become is determined by your genetics. How tall is your dad or mom? How tall are their siblings? That should give you a fairly good estimate as to how tall you may become.
The only thing you can do to help is to maintain a healthy diet and do not smoke. Smoking has been suspected to stunt growth.
Sleep, and lots of it is important. Your body does all of it's growing while you sleep.
Besides, you're only 13. Your body is probably just starting puberty. You will probably notice a huge growth increase over the next few years. I was 5'6", 145lbs when I was 16. When I was 20, I reached 6'1", 210lbs.
Don't worry so much about it now.....you have alot of time ahead of you.

Answer 4

Sweety, I am 5'2" and over 40. I know I have stopped growing :-) You are 13 years old, so you have approximately 5-7 years of frowth to come. Basketball is great for your heart and health, but that will not make you grow taller. Make sure you eat right limiting your junk food intake, drink your milk because it DOES do a body good and be patient. I have a feeling as the years add up so will your height, making that basket goal a little easier to reach. Good luck and God bless. Enjoy being young, ya hear?!

Answer 5

This is pretty much all up to genetics. There is little you can do to make yourself grow taller than your genes allow.

However...You can stay fit, healthy, active, cut excessive caffiene, dont smoke, and avoid illegal substances, and anything else that may get in the way of reaching your full height potential.

Guys generally are done growing by 18. Girls closer to 16.

My poor little brother was a shrimp all through Jr high and high school but finally got a growth spurt at 17 and reached a nice average height for guys. I stopped growing at 19 at 5'10.

Id say you still have plenty of time to grow:)

Answer 6

Genetics (your DNA) has already determined how tall you are going to be. There is nothing you can do to change it. From your age, you probably either just started your growth spurt or will soon...it takes place over a year or two. Don't worry...you'll probably grow some more.

I'm sorry but you will just have to be patient. By the time you are 16-17, you will have probably reached your full height. Until then, just wait.

Answer 7

Hey, this is radio station W-S-K-E-E
We're takin' calls on the wish line
Making all your wacky wishes come true

Hello

1-I wish I was little bit taller,
I wish I was a baller,
I wish I had a girl who looked good
I would call her
I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat
and a six-four impala

I wish I was like six-foot-nine
So I can get with Leoshi
Cause she don't know me but yo she's really fine
You know I see her all the time
Everywhere I go, and even in my dreams
I can scheme a way to make her mine
Cause I know she's livin phat
Her boyfriend's tall and he plays ball
So how am I gonna compete with that
'Cause when it comes to playing basketball
I'm always last to be picked
And in some cases never picked at all
So I just lean up on the wall
Or sit up in the bleachers with the rest of the girls
Who came to watch their men ball
Dag y'all! I never understood, black
Why the jocks get the fly girls
And me I get the hood rats
I tell 'em scat, skittle, scabobble
Got hit with a bottle
And I been in the hospital
For talkin' that mess
I confess it's a shame when you livin' in a city
That's the size of a box and nobody knows yo' name
Glad I came to my senses
Like quick-quick got sick-sick to my stomach
Overcome by the thoughts of me and her together
Right?
So when I asked her out she said I wasn't her type
(rpt 1, 1)

I wish I had a brand-new car
So far, I got this hatchback
And everywhere I go, yo I gets laughed at
And when I'm in my car I'm laid back
I got an 8-track and a spare tire in the backseat
But that's flat
And do you really wanna know what's really whack
See I can't even get a date
So, what do you think of that?
I heard that prom night is a bomb night
With the hood rats you can hold tight
But really tho' I 'm a figaro
When I'm in my car I can't even get a hello
Well so many people wanna cruise Crenshaw on Sunday
Well then I'ma have to get in my car and go
You know I take the 110 until the 105
Get off at Crenshaw tell my homies look alive
Cause it's hard to survive when your livin'
In a concrete jungle and
These girls just keep passin' me by
She looks fly, she looks fly
Makes me say my, my, my
(rpt 1, 1)

I wish I was a little bit taller y'all
I wish I was a baller...
I wish I was a little bit taller y'all
I wish I was a baller (3)

Hey, I wish I had my way
'Cause everyday would be a Friday
You could even speed on the highway
I would play ghetto games
Name my kids ghetto names
Little Mookie, big Al, Lorraine
Yo you know that's on the real
So if you're down on your luck
Then you should know just how I feel
Cause if you don't want me around
See I go simple, I go easy, I go greyhound
Hey, you , what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
Ahhhh, yes, ain't that fresh?
Everybody wants to get down like dat
(rpt 1, 1)

I wish, I wish, I wish (fade out)

Answer 8

You're gonna be growing for the next 5-8 years. Don't smoke or drink coffee, they'll stunt your growth. Just eat healthy and work out. You're only gonna get so tall. Usually about as tall as your parents, if not an inch or two taller.

Answer 9

It's all genetics, sorry. Not much you can really do.
Basketball is supposed to make you grow? huh.

Oh yeah 13 and 5'1 hm. I think I was 13 and 5'8, and im 6'3ish now. You have till your 17-18 so dont worry. You'll probably be at least or around 5'8.

Answer 10

Unfortunately it's already predetermined by your DNA, but your still young and have a few more years of growth left. Be thankful I'm 38 and only 4'11. When I was your age I was so short I had to climb up the drinking fountain to get a drink.