Bone Science Blog Journal

For height growth, you need to take enough nutrition such as vitamins, calcium, and protein. Following the last posting that introducing the nutrients to affect height growth, this time, we will learn about the foods that can supply each nutrient. Dairy products such as milk Milk is a food rich in calcium and vitamin D. Calcium cannot be produced internally and can be consumed through food and plays an important role in bone formation and skeletal growth and development. Dairy products such as milk, yogurt and cheese contain rich calcium. Adequate calcium intake during children and adolescence maintains adequate bone mass...

Environmental factors that affect height growth, such as the proper exercise, sleep, and balanced meals. In order to grow in height, you need to have a healthy bone structure, which requires adequate nutrition. In this posting, we’ll learn about nutrients that help height growth in order to have a ‘balanced meals ‘, one of the environmental factors that influence height growth. Vitamins Vitamins are core nutrients that play an important role in height growth and bone health. Vitamin B12 affects bone-forming cells, and vitamin C increases the iron absorption and bone density by helping to synthesize a type I collagen as a...

A person’s adult height is determined by both genetic and environmental factors such as nutrition or physical exercise. A healthy bone structure builds the foundation to fulfill the maximum height growth potential. Find out more in this blog post about the environmental factors that affect a healthy bone structure and adult height by about 20~40 %. Prenatal Growth Factors Environmental factors play a significant role even before birth. Among others, the maternal age, order of birth, and crowding within the uterus determine the weight and height of babies. First-born babies, for example, have a birth weight of about 100 g less than...

According to the WHO growth reference standards, the expected average height of a population should be 163 cm for women and 176.5 cm for men. In fact, the global average height for women is only 159.5 cm and for men 171 cm. The data related to average heights vary largely between the countries. We will compare in this article the average height between continents and countries. First, let us find out about the average height in the United States. Average Height of US-Americans Between 1999 and 2016, the National Health and Nutrition Examination (NCHS) conducted a large study measuring the...