Growing Taller Nutrition Part 4 – Carbohydrates

You may be wondering about what else to eat to grow taller.
Well you may also be surprised to find out that a very common mistake lots of people make when trying to get taller is that they include far too much carbohydrate in their diet.

Believe it or not a diet that is high in carbohydrates can have a stunting effect on your growth.
Although carbohydrate does contain a lot of energy, it only contains a very little amount of vitamins and minerals, or anything else your body can use to aid growth.
The high carbohydrate diet is argued to be one of the very reasons that Asian countries have such a short average height compared with those of Europe or the United States.
Foods which Asian countries eat regularly such as corns, rices, breads and grain products are extremely high in carbohydrates but contain little else useful to the bodies development or growth.
This has meant a stunted growth effect which leaves the population in this part of the world shorter than average.
A second important issue to consider when thinking about your ‘grow taller’ nutrition plan is the glycemic index.
The glycemic index or G.I is a measure of how fast the carbohydrate you eat will absorb into the bloodstream and raise your blood sugar levels.
This normally takes place over a period of several hours but it largely depends on the food types you are eating and its GI. As the GI is measured on a scale, the base rate or ‘normal food’ is set at 100, this is normally considered to be white bread.
This is important to growing taller because food which has a higher GI becomes absorbed into your blood quickly and therefore raises the level of insulin in your system.
Why is this bad? Well insulin inhibits the ability of growth hormones in your body.