QuestionI wanna grow 13cm taller before my 18th birthday & I only have 5 months to do so.
*Do I need more calcium?
*Do I need more zinc?
*What else do I need?
*What should I do? Exercise?
*Should I stretch my body (I have monkey bars at home)
*Which vegetables or fruits contain 1mg of zinc per serving?
*Sould I take appeton teengrow pills daily? I haerd that thispill can help teens to grow tall.
P.S-I can't eat beef and oysters.
AnswerDear Kate,
Sorry but I don't think your goal's deadline is realistic. Growth acceleration takes time and patience, and a lot of hard work. However, you might want to read my answers to a similar question at Nutrition & Dieting:
http://www.allexperts.com/expert.cgi?m=1&catID=939&expID=60797
EXERCISE
Stretching indeed seems to be able to stimulate grown, sometimes even after puberty. Interestingly, mechanical stretching of even a single cell helped to activate the growth of muscle cells in culture (Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 278,H521-H529). Any exercise can facilitate growth and in fact is necessary for secretion of growth hormone and other body's own anabolic hormones. Another strong growth hormone stimulator is sleep: this is why teens are usually advised to have enough quality sleep. Read more about growth hormone:
http://atkinszone-faq.blogspot.com/2008/08/do-human-growth-hormone-supplements.h
http://atkinszone-faq.blogspot.com/2006/10/growth-hormone-qa.html
Exercise intensity and duration also determines the rate of growth hormone secretion: 3 sets of 8 repetitions of exercise involving 12 muscle groups (using Nautilus equipment) resulted in greater growth hormone concentration in the blood than only 1 set.
As to the stretching, all anecdotal evidence indicates that you need to stretch A LOT for successful growth stimalation. Exercises include monkey bar hanging, basketball jumps, swimming, and the like. However, nobody knows for sure what's A LOT though there are quite a few eBooks and print books over there claiming guaranteed success.
ZINC (more about mineral-rich foods: http://atkinszone-recipes.blogspot.com/2010/09/mineral-rich-foods.html)
Zinc influences hormonal regulation of body growth but it also affects individual cell multiplying. It's linked to the structure and action of many enzymes involved in many different metabolic processes that more or less directly participates in body growth regulation.
Keep it in your mind that minerals and micro-elements work best when taken in sets, synegristiclaly. So, you'll also need to have enough protein, iron, calcium, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, and Linolenic acid e.g., from fish, eggs walnuts, canola oil, soybean oil, soybeans, and tofu.
_Fruit and Vegetable sources of zinc_
The zinc from fruits and vegetables sources is not absorbed well. A rule of thumb is to eat a variety of zinc-dense foods like whole grains, nuts, peas, and pinto beans.
Appeton Teengrow
Appeton Teengrow contains calcium, vitamin D, copper, manganese, zinc, potassium, magnesium and vitamin C - the vitamins and minerals known to be important in bone development thus supporting the "bone" part of teen's body growth.
Here are examples of cereals with announced zinc content:
- Wild Puffs Organic: most of the flavors contain around 25% recommended dialy values for zinc
- Toasted O's Honey Nut Organic: Zinc 25%
- ShopNatural: Zinc 10%
Zinc content of some fruit and:
vegetables
Avocados, in 100 grams: 0.64 mg
Apricots 0.20 mg
Apples: 0.04 mgCabbage: 0.18 mg
Carrots: 0.17 mg
Kidney beans: 0.60 mg
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