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Eat to get taller, not wider
September 30, 2008
Last summer, the journal Social Science Quarterly reported that Americans are losing the height race. In 1880, Americans were the tallest people in the world. In 2000, American men were 9th, and women 15th. The winners were those pesky Northern Europeans, with the Dutch leading the pack.
Interestingly, the study only included native-born, English speaking Americans, and didn’t include people of Asian or Hispanic descent, to make the comparisons more equivalent. Even more interestingly, researchers found that the height difference increased most in infancy and adolescence.
It looks like early health care and eating habits are the primary causes of the phenomenon. And that means that healthy eating makes you taller as a kid and thinner as an adult. How do they do that?
For those of you with school age athletes, good nutrition is especially important. Successful athletes are becoming taller (except for gymnasts, where the apparatus size tends to constrain athlete height.) Good nutrition is also crucial for optimal recovery after exercise, as well as optimal performance, for exercisers of any age.
And performance is what we're all about. I’ll be offering “From Making the Team to Locking Up a Scholarship: Upgrading the Student–Athlete’s Performance ” and we’ll be featuring the “secret weapon” of Olympic superstars Dara Torres and Nastia Liukin: Assisted Meridian Resistance Flexibility and Strength Training. The presentation is at 7 PM at Human HyperFormance, 14 Saratoga Road, Skyway Plaza, Scotia, NY. Admission is free, but please call or email to reserve your place.
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