While some people believe that human height is solely determined by genetics, others often look for methods that can supposedly increase a person’s height like Health experts insist that nutritionexercise, environmental and lifestyle factors also come into play during childhood and adolescence to determine how tall a person will be once they have finished growing. From optimal movement therapy to the right nutritional fuel for kids’ nutrition, we’ve got some health experts to share all the exercise and diet tips and tricks to help your child grow faster.
In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr. Mickey Mehta, celebrity holistic healer and lifestyle coach shared, “Optimal movement therapy for children will make it easier to open up all your joints, increase growth hormones, improve conditioning of the heart and lungs, it will improve oxygen in the body, increasing strength in the limbs and agility. All these things together will help the child to grow taller.” He listed some exercises that may be helpful in helping your child grow faster:
1. Standing against the wall with your stomach and face towards it and gradually creeping up on your toes and up on your toes as high as possible stretching your spine, hamstrings, neck, shoulder joints, armpits, hip socket keeping it there, coming back and exhaling again as you crawl up, do this 5-7 times.
2. Turn around with your spine against the wall, shoulder-width apart, legs apart, knees soft, take a deep breath, touch your hands to the wall, then exhale and lower slowly by bending your spine trying to touch your toes and dangling. your head suspended downwards do that about 5-7 times.
3. Bounce, bounce and jump, bounce, exhale and jump, so inhale, bounce, exhale and jump, inhale, squat. So when you bounce, you should get up off the floor, exhale, and reach for the sky.
4. After that, Bhujanasana and walk back to Inchworm.
5. Then Single Pavan Muktasana and Double Pavan Muktasana should also be done.
According to celebrity nutritionist Priyanka Shetty, children can only grow if they are given the proper fuel for their diet. Before eating, they should be exposed to a lot of nature, sun and fresh air and she listed some dietary tips:
1. Children should be given plenty of A2 cow ghee with milk and rock sugar in winters.
2. For breakfast, you can have homemade poha, desi ghee upma (with peanuts, chickpeas, lentils, green beans, carrots, coriander leaves).
3. In summer you have to give them melons, nuts and lots of fruit.
4. With lunch you can give them salad, grilled or fried aloo paratha or sweet potato, moong daal, buttermilk, brown rice and til gudladoo or rajgira chikki or sattu’s.
5. At night, when they are hungry, you can give them tender coconut water along with that you can give them chana or nuts, raisins.
6. At dinner, you could give them some jowar roti, mix green vegetables and paneer and soup (carrot, beet, tomato or cauliflower, spinach, butternut squash and some more combinations).
7. Make sure that the child does not overeat and does not fall asleep immediately after lunch and dinner.
8. Dinner must take place between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
9. Children must sleep well to heal, recover and grow.
A Master Yoga educator and trainer, Deepal Modi suggested, “Meditation is very important. Children must know how to distract themselves, how to completely disconnect, how to empty the cluttered mind so that an empty mind is a mind that will heal, make them whole, and allow them to change the genetic signature from what was. to what could be with the new memories with the right food workouts and another lifestyle. It can be done simply by focusing on the breath and/or visualizing happy moments. Techniques like candle gazing and mantra recitation are good for children. Dance can also be done as a meditation.”
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