Playing basketball is good for growing taller, but you will definitely grow taller if you don't play basketball. It depends on many factors, such as heredity and nutrition. The following information may be helpful to you. How to grow taller? There are many factors in the inheritance of height. If parents are not tall, they should be encouraged by diet and some exercise. If both parents are tall or one parent is tall, there is a great hope that the child will grow tall. In fact, the fastest growth of children's height is in adolescence, and the lack of height development in childhood is due to the perfection of various organs. At this time, just pay attention to nutrition and let the children have a good living environment. Whether the height is satisfactory depends on several factors. First of all, genetic factors account for 70%. It also depends on other conditions, including sports, nutrition, environment and social factors. In order to make children grow taller, parents should pay attention to the following points: First, don't miss the fast growth period. When does the height of children grow fastest during puberty? Studies have confirmed that the height of most Han children in China is about 12 years for girls and 14 years for boys. More than 90% of the girls are between 1 1- 13 years old and the boys are between 13- 15 years old. In order to make children grow taller, parents should pay special attention to their nutrition and exercise during the rapid growth period. Second, we should pay attention to nutrition, which is the key to children's physical growth. The energy, protein and amino acids needed for normal growth of the body must be provided by food, mainly meat, eggs, beans and beans. Bone formation also requires sufficient calcium, phosphorus and trace amounts of manganese and iron. Insufficient calcium intake and vitamin D deficiency will lead to insufficient bone mineralization, vitamin A deficiency will make bones shorter and thicker, and vitamin C deficiency will make bone cells brittle and affect bone growth. At present, the average family should have a comprehensive and adequate nutrition and a balanced diet. Parents should be careful not to let their children develop the habit of partial eclipse, let alone let their children eat too many snacks, which will affect the intake of important nutrients. Third, don't ignore that physical exercise can strengthen the metabolic process of human body, accelerate blood circulation, promote the secretion of growth hormone and accelerate the growth of bone tissue, which is beneficial to human body length. The following kinds of exercises have a certain effect on height growth, so try them. 1. The hanging swing adopts a horizontal bar or a door frame, and the height should be such that the body is hung on the bar and the toes can just leave the ground. Hold the lever with both hands, the distance is slightly larger than the shoulder width, the feet are close together, and then the body swings back and forth, not too much, not too long. It is best to arrange exercise every morning and try to relax and droop for 20 seconds. Young men should do 10 ~ 15 times, and young women should do it 2 ~ 6 times. 2. When jumping up and down, touch the preset object with both hands, which can be branches on the roadside, basketball baskets or ceilings. Jump with your feet and do it 30 times. Take a rest and jump with your left foot and right foot, as above. 3. When playing basketball in ball games, actively strive for rebounds and jump shots to break the ball; Try to jump up when playing volleyball, and do more smash and block; Practice jumping up and hitting the ball on the forehead in football. 4. Jumping exercises can be one-legged jump, frog jump, triple jump, multi-stage jump and vertical jump in situ. Fourth, don't forget to create a good living environment for children. Abnormal mental nervous system will also affect children's physical development. If parents divorce, the relationship between children and guardians is abnormal, children are often abused, or children are seriously stimulated, their growth rate will gradually slow down, making their height lower than the lower limit of normal children of the same age and gender. Being short will aggravate a child's sense of inferiority, which is due to the psychological and social stimulation to the child, which affects the transmission of nerve impulses from the cerebral cortex to the hypothalamus, thus inhibiting the secretion of growth hormone by the pituitary gland. When the child's environment is handled, the growth rate can return to normal. Five, do not forget to actively prevent and treat children and adolescents with chronic diseases should be actively treated. Chronic infection, chronic hepatitis, chronic nephritis, asthma, heart disease, anemia and other long-term diseases will affect growth and development. Genetic diseases of bones, such as osteochondral dysplasia, can also limit the growth of bones. "mom! Because of you, I was born so short. " Jia Xiang, a junior high school student, has been sitting in the front row since elementary school. Seeing that her height was getting worse than that of other students, she complained angrily to her mother. "Who told you not to drink more milk? You don't exercise at ordinary times!" Mother answered him grumpily. When children grow up, parents care not only about their health, but also about whether their children will grow tall and strong in the future. Pediatric clinics and online health consultation websites often see parents anxiously asking, "Doctor, why is my child not tall?" "Drink more milk to help? Some impatient parents even inquire about the prescription of "increasing height" everywhere, hoping that their children will grow a few centimeters taller. However, some people think that people's height is determined by genes, and nutrition and exercise have little effect. How tall a person can grow is born, or do you have to work hard the day after tomorrow What can a developing child do to have a chance to get ahead? Judging from the growth rate of bone age, people gradually grow taller in the process of growth, which is the result of bone growth and development, mainly in the growth of lower limb bones and vertebrae. The growth of lower limb bone is formed by the growth plates of femur and tibia. Growth plates are located at both ends of the bone. Stimulated by the growth hormone secreted by pituitary gland, they will constantly proliferate cartilage, and the new cartilage will become hard bone after calcification, so the bone will become longer and wider. From birth to 1 year-old, the child grows fastest in his life, and then the speed gradually slows down. Until adolescence, sex hormones begin to interact with growth hormone, and the child's height and weight begin to increase sharply. Wang Zhihong, an attending physician in orthopedics at National Taiwan University Hospital, pointed out that the progress of a person's height should be evaluated together with the "bone age" (the age of bone growth and development), not just by the average age. Some precocious children, the progress of bone age is faster than the actual age, and their height is more prominent than that of their peers at the beginning, but it is not necessarily that adults will grow taller later. How long our height can grow depends on the closure of the whole body growth plate. If the growth plate is closed, it means that the bone has matured, the bone no longer grows, and the height will not increase. What factors will affect a person's height? Heredity determines your height. The most important determinant of your child's height is heredity. " Wang Zhihong, an attending orthopedic physician at National Taiwan University Hospital, said: "The correlation between parents' height and children's height is as high as 80%, and the influence of parents is half." Therefore, if the parents are not tall, the height of the child is generally not particularly prominent. However, there are exceptions. Mr. Yang, who works in a construction company, is only 160cm tall and his wife is not tall. However, both his sons have broken the genetic restriction. One is over 180cm in height and the other is over 170cm in height. Friends joked that this is the masterpiece of Yang's "genetic mutation". For this special situation, Li Junxian, a pediatrician at Guangxin Hospital, pointed out that a person's height is not determined by a single specific gene. Most people have both high genes and short genes. Whether it is tall or short depends mainly on which one is expressed by genes. "So in a family, sometimes one child is tall and the other child is short," Li Junxian explained. However, doctors believe that the height gap between parents and children is more than ten centimeters, which is purely a minority. Most children are still similar to their parents when they grow up. Seeing this, many short parents may be disappointed. Since genes decide everything, can the efforts of the day after tomorrow help? In fact, besides genes affecting height, other related factors can not be ignored. "Suppose your genes decide that you can grow to 160 cm, but your malnutrition and lack of exercise probably won't make you grow to this height," said Li Junxian, who thinks the efforts the day after tomorrow are equally important. Nutrition and exercise can help people grow taller, which is a comprehensive performance. In addition to genetic congenital limitations, the following factors will also affect the future height of children: ▓ Adequate and balanced nutrition is definitely the key to the success of children's growth. According to the recommendation of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), indispensable nutrients include protein, calcium, vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, minerals magnesium and zinc. Protein is the basic substance that constitutes and repairs human muscles, bones and tissues. Lack of protein can lead to skeletal and muscular stunting and atrophy. Animal foods such as meat, seafood and milk are completely protein sources, while plant sources can be obtained from beans, grains and stone fruits. Calcium is a raw material for making bones, which can promote growth and increase bone density. Therefore, drinking two cups of milk every day is a good way for children to accumulate bones. Vitamin D is another nutrient that makes bones strong. In addition to milk, salmon, tuna and other fish, the human body can also make vitamin D by sunbathing 10 ~ 15 minutes every day. Mineral zinc is an indispensable nutrient for infant development. Dutch studies have found that insufficient zinc intake during infant development can lead to developmental retardation. In addition, according to many foreign studies, children's intake of sufficient zinc can reduce the incidence of diarrhea. Foods rich in zinc include meat, liver, seafood (especially oysters), eggs and wheat germ. "Iron is also important for growth and development," added Weng Huiling, a nutritionist at National Taiwan University Hospital. However, according to the national nutrition survey conducted by the Ministry of Health, iron deficiency is common among women over 4 years old in China, while the iron deficiency rate is higher among men in adolescence and over 65 years old. So growing children should eat lean meat, animal liver, egg yolk or dark green vegetables to get enough iron. ▓ Sports Many people think that jumping sports such as skipping rope and playing basketball will help them grow taller, which is true from a medical point of view. According to the research, it is found that excessive compression of the growth plate will cause growth retardation, but moderate and intermittent compression or stretching of the growth plate can stimulate its growth. Therefore, children and teenagers who want to grow taller have to do sports, especially some bouncing sports. However, excessive weight training such as gymnastics and weightlifting will hinder growth, and doctors suggest that it is best to avoid it during the growth stage. ▓ Hormone secretion The secretion of many hormones in the human body dominates or affects our growth and development, such as growth hormone, sex hormone, thyroxine, parathyroid hormone and insulin. ▓ Sleep As mentioned above, human growth is mainly influenced by growth hormone, which is secreted especially vigorously at night, so if you want to grow taller, don't stay up at the expense of sleep time, and try to sleep before 1 1 p.m. Diseases Congenital diseases such as heart, kidney, lung and liver, bone diseases, endocrine and metabolic diseases, and Turnur syndrome will all affect normal growth and development. Except for a few people who are short stature due to family genetic factors, if they are malnourished, they can make up for it by supplementing nutrition, but if they are abnormal growth caused by diseases, they should seek medical advice as soon as possible. Many parents are worried about how to judge whether their children grow normally, and sometimes they are even too worried, forcing their children to eat hard, or asking around for the secret recipe of "increase". Doctors suggest that parents can evaluate their children's growth from two aspects: measuring their height every six months. Under normal circumstances, children will grow at least 5 ~ 6 cm tall every year before puberty. If the child is less than 4 cm in one year, parents should take the child to pediatrics and ask a doctor to evaluate it to further understand the causes of growth retardation. Refer to the growth curve in Children's Health Handbook. If the child's height is lower than the third percentile of the same age group, it is regarded as pathological short stature and needs examination and treatment. However, parents should not be too happy when their children are superior. If the growth curve exceeds the 97th percentile of the same age group, it may be abnormal and must be checked and confirmed.