How much do you think this affected my growth?

Edit Post

For the most part I only had the one free lunch that was offered at school as my one and only meal for the day, not sure if that is considered malnourishment or not, just got used to it. I missed out on the free breakfast program which didn't start until after I graduated. Summer's were always tough and I come from a six sibling family with a mother who worked herself to death.
I personally put a lot more emphasis on sleep though.

Edit Post

Quote from: exclide on August 30, 2014, 11:37:28 AMNow you're just talking out of your ass.

Read the study I posted, your height may vary from 25 percentile to 75 depending on your nutrition.

chill out

Edit Post

Quote from: exclide on August 30, 2014, 11:37:28 AM

Read the study I posted, your height may vary from 25 percentile to 75 depending on your nutrition.

I might read it, as long as it's not biased.

Edit Post

Quote from: exclide on August 30, 2014, 10:21:06 AMDid I say that? Is affects your growth to some extent, it doesn't stunt it. And the ones that eat good, don't get sick too much and have less stress get to their maximum potential.

Stunting and affecting is the same to me = You don't reach all of your potential. What I said is that nobody in the world lives a perfect childhood and youth without getting sick once or not having stress once. So if you say to the OP, yes it affected your growth 100%, that means that nearly every person in the world has stunted growth.

Edit Post

Quote from: exclide on August 27, 2014, 01:40:05 PMOf course it did have impact, you don't grow just by drinking water. And you don't need to be malnourished to lose some of your height potential. Good nutrition equals more height - this is an established scientific fact. And it's not the only factor that can influence your adult height, there's also things called 'stress' and 'disease', if you had too much of these in your childhood, well bad news then!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809930/

wow..

If those studies are to be trusted, then im certain my growth was stunted to a very high degree..

My biological father was 180 cm, both my parents where very malnourished (third world country level of malnourishment), including during my mothers pregnancy, so i ended up being born a few weeks to early and only weighed about 2 Kilos at birth. I was adopted and lived in cold and dark Sweden while being darker skinned, and didnt take vitamin D supplements, so im sure i was vitamin D deficient.

I also was sick a lot during my childhood, ate badly (small portions and irregularly) and slept bad as well. Lots of stress where put on me due to being adopted too, and also many bad experiences in school.

I might easily have been 180+ naturally if not for these factors..

Edit Post

Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on August 30, 2014, 12:38:42 PMStunting and affecting is the same to me = You don't reach all of your potential. What I said is that nobody in the world lives a perfect childhood and youth without getting sick once or not having stress once. So if you say to the OP, yes it affected your growth 100%, that means that nearly every person in the world has stunted growth.

Well obviously there are different degrees to how much your growth was affected/stunted. its true that probably no one, or very few reaches their absolute maximum potential in terms of height (and probably other physical properties as well) but those who eat good and experience easy childhoods most likely reaches much closer to their potential compared to those who had a lot of stress and ate badly and where sick etc.

Edit Post

LOL, I actually never intended to lay it all out there but you can count me in the preemie club, 4 pounds 10 ounces, born with medical/birth issues, 4 week's early, and I fit in shoe box so I was told.

Now if only my mother would have sucked in her pride and taken advantage of the government "food stamp" program to feed her six children then I would be so much taller today for sure. Oh sure I could dwell on the 'what if's' especially considering it was a government program that has been around since the early 1970's but she is not around anymore for me to berate her about it anyway. Still I would rather keep the focus on the solution to my shorter height.

Edit Post

Quote from: Wannabegiant on August 30, 2014, 12:53:23 PMWell obviously there are different degrees to how much your growth was affected/stunted. its true that probably no one, or very few reaches their absolute maximum potential in terms of height (and probably other physical properties as well) but those who eat good and experience easy childhoods most likely reaches much closer to their potential compared to those who had a lot of stress and ate badly and where sick etc.

The problem is you can never really know what your true "genetic potential height" was. If somone turns out 1,75, his potential height could've been 1,85 but it also could've been 1,76. Comparing to parents doesn't necessarily help either, because even tall parents can have genetically short kids.

Edit Post

Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on August 30, 2014, 03:25:43 PMThe problem is you can never really know what your true "genetic potential height" was. If somone turns out 1,75, his potential height could've been 1,85 but it also could've been 1,76. Comparing to parents doesn't necessarily help either, because even tall parents can have genetically short kids.

Technically you can never really know anything to be 100% certain. However with the knowledge we have we can make conclusions as to what is the most likely truth.

Edit Post

Quote from: Wannabegiant on August 30, 2014, 03:49:49 PMTechnically you can never really know anything to be 100% certain. However with the knowledge we have we can make conclusions as to what is the most likely truth.

Sure. You can measure your current height 100% accurate. Measuring how much of your growth you did or didn't reach is impossible.