Very serious poll... please answer!!!

[Anonymous]

- How tall are you?
- How much dairy did you consume during your teens?
- How many hrs did you sleep during your teens?
- What's your parents height?

This is a SERIOUS poll to find out if somebody's height is determined mostly from genetics or proper nutrition and sleep. also to see as well if "dairy makes you taller" is actually a myth.

I'm waiting for your answers

Updates

+1 y

by the way to answer to my question:

-im 5'7"
-i drank 500 ml of chocolate milk during my teens every morning
-i slept about 6-7 hrs in the night and about 1 hr in the noon
- my dad was 5'9" and my mom 5'4" by the time i was born

[Ieven]

How tall are you?
- I'm 5.7 not that much tall.
How much dairy did you consume during your teens?
-I'm 17. And I drink dairy occasionally.
How many hours did you sleep during your teens?
-Actually it depends on my pressure and times. I usually sleep 6 hours everyday. But in holidays I sleep like 8-10 hours or more and sometime I sleep like 4 hours or so when I get exams and other pressures.
What's your parents height?
-My dad is about 5.7 and my mom is 5.4.

(But my elder brother is 6.1 who is 6 inches more taller than me and my dad. Sometime I feel shame and upset when I go somewhere with my brother. So I wanna grow at least 3 inches more taller. Is there any way to help me? ) Thank you. :D

[Asker]

you are stil growing but guess we've got the same height and i feel tall LOL

i don't know if dairy helps actually... so keep consuming dairy, play basketball, have proper sleep and avoid caffeine

[Ieven]

Ow dam. I drink coffee or tea at least twice a day. :( Thanks for the compliment brother. :)

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[Ieven]

My teen is still running and I drink coffee or tea like 3 or 4 times each day.

[Asker]

if you didn't you might grow taller i guess

[Ieven]

I don't know. My brother used to drink 4-5 cup of coffee when he was teen. But he's 6.1. So really its kinda confusing. :( But it is a matter of sorrow that I think I can't live without caffeine may be cause I feel daze when I study without drinking a cup of coffee or tea.

[yggdrasil_worldtree]

- I'm 5'11"
- I'm lactose intolerant but I drink lactaid (lol) often enough, not always in the morning though just whenever I feel like it
- My sleep schedule is screwy, some nights I'll get 6-8 hours and many others only about 4-5
- My mom is like 5'2" and my dad is 5'5"

[Asker]

and how did you become taller? grandparents were taller i guess? or some else family member?

[yggdrasil_worldtree]

I have no idea actually. My grandpa on my dad's side was about 5'7" or so and a few of my cousins are even taller than me. But pretty much everyone in my family is a lot shorter than me. My parents say that if they'd received better nutrition in their country while growing up, they'd be taller. It's just genetics I suppose.

[Asker]

not "just genetics" genetics must be understood by people how they work. scientists must study them, it's very important. height is not a random lottery

[yggdrasil_worldtree]

I know that... it's obvious I got it from someone in the family... I just don't know who because I'm taller than basically everyone in my family. Only taller people are my cousins and they're only like 3 years older

[Asker]

then your cousins where they took it over?

[yggdrasil_worldtree]

I don't get what you're asking me.

[Asker]

how your cousins ended up tall as well, since all of your family is short. it'd make some sense if your dad had some leg shortening surgery, and he was taller actually :P

[Asker]

dude you'll get MH because your case is the most extraordinary by far

[yggdrasil_worldtree]

Yeah a lot of my family members wonder as well. Two of my cousins are over 6' but yeah like I said everyone else is a lot shorter.
Haha awesome :) thanks man :)

[lace1228]

I am 5'8"
I probably had your average dairy in take
I slept the average 7to8hrs
My mom is 5'6" and my dad 6'1"
The most caffeine I had would be from pop and chocolate and I didn't eat or drink much of either.
The fact is height amongst other gentic traits are already decided while being developed in the mothers womb.

[Asker]

so you mean height is already decided by the time you're an embryo? that's CRAZY. height is very important

[lanternhill]

I think maximum height is probably strongly influenced by genetics, but nutrition plays a huge role as well - you could end up 2" shorter than your supposed max. height due to poor nutrition in childhood. This happened in (I think it was) China - one of the generations was on average 2" shorter due to malnutrition, according to my mom.

[Asker]

but another guy here, had caffeine didn't consume much dairy slept less than 6 hrs, yet he ended up taller by his parents by 4 inches!!!

[lace1228]

Lanternhill is right. Gentics plays a bigger role in the deciding factor on how tall or short you will be. Healthy diet and exercise can influence the end result but not a whole lot. Milk and meat have a lot of added hormones which is dangerous and is the cause for girls starting their periods early and they are developing breast earlier then normal. This can also add to height difference. Poor nutrition can have the same impact but in the other direction.

[lace1228]

Your MH case is actually very easy to explain. Gentics is very interesting and their are two characteristics Dominant and Recessive traits. For example a recessive trait is when both your parents have brown eyes and you have blue eyes. For example big B represents brown eyes and little b represents blue eyes so your mom and dad gentics would be Bb and Bb. So when baby is born both mother and father had to pass their genes which would be bb. Basically Dominant traits are the more in away superior and stronger where a recessive trait is kind of shy and hides but once in a while will come through. The probability of having blue eyes when both parents have brown eyes is about 25%.

[Asker]

i want to be a genetic engineer and manipulate those genetics and convert them the way i want

[lace1228]

I am not sure how advanced we are in technology in order to do that. It would be extremely difficult I would imagine. The whole thing right at conception when sperm and egg meets.

[Asker]

i hope we wil be soon. i want to ALTER my genetics and mould them like a plasticine and rub them like a piece of toilet paper... CAN I?/

[findingdreamland]

How tall are you? I am 168 cm
- How much dairy did you consume during your teens? I always eat less, even in my teenage years.
- How many hrs did you sleep during your teens? I slept like 8 hours in a day.
- What's your parents height?
Mum 175 cm - dad: 175 cm

[Asker]

so that makes someone believe that dairy is what makes someone taller... things getting mixed up, because another guy mentioned he didn't consume much diary yet he's taller than his dad by 4 inches and by his mom by 9

[findingdreamland]

I think consuming a lot of diary doesn't have so much effect as we think.

[Asker]

probably... what about sleep?

[findingdreamland]

I think sleep has effect, more sleep more height as I noticed

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[findingdreamland]

I literally consumed 0 caffeine. I didn't drink neither tea, nor coffee actually. I started to drink coffee, when I was 20. Before, I didn't like the taste.

[Asker]

yet shorter? i see...

[findingdreamland]

But my sister is 175-6 ?

[Asker]

did she had the same dairy/sleepng/caffeine habbits with you?

[findingdreamland]

Almost same, less diary

[springocelot]

- 5'5"
- 1 cup of milk every morning during my teens
- virtually no caffeine consumption
- ranges from 6-8 hours; sleep pattern was kind of sporadic in my teens
- mom is 5'6"; dad is 5'9 (for what it's worth, my dad is the only tall one on his side of the family)

[Asker]

so you took over from your dad's family members mostly

[springocelot]

I think I'm more with my mom's side. I'm about 4-5 inches taller than the average woman on my dad's side of the family.

[HeyJustBeingMe]

Im 187 i guess that makes me close to a 6'2"
I drank around 1 liter+ milk per day and i still do for some reason.
I slept around 7 to 8 hours every night.
My dad is 5'9" and mum is 5'6"
My little bro is also close to 6'2" and drank the same amounts of milk however he stipped a year ago. And he slept wayyy more then 8 hours a night.

[Asker]

so according to your case you're proving that lots of milk is what made you taller. any other family members heights?

[HeyJustBeingMe]

PS: my grandparents are even smaller then my mum and dad. BOTH sides grandparents. So to clearify. My Dads mum and dad where smaller then my dad is now. And my mums mummy is smaller except her dad he is the same height as my mum.

[Asker]

i see.. so you're proving that milk made you taller as well as your brother

[AleDeEurope]

I'm 5'11
Milk is my favorite drink, so I drink milk everyday, and when I was a kid I used to drink two times a day, and when I was between 14-17 I used to drink like a full carton of milk a day, which was 1L. So I've been drinking a lot of milk in my life.

My Dad is a bit shorter than 5'11, and my mum is 5'3 more or less.
I usually slept around 8 hours.

[Asker]

ok your answer sounds logical

[Red_Dragon]

My homie are you considering not eating/drinking as much dairy?

How tall are you? 5'3

How much dairy did you consume during your teens? Hmmmm. Idk. Whole milk would screw me up, but I ate a lot of cheese and stuff.

How many hrs did you sleep during your teens? Definitely a lot more than I do now. Now I sleep sporadic. So I'd say probably 7 or 8 hours during my teens.

What's your parents height? 5'2 and 5'9 (or 5'10)

[Asker]

i stopped consuming dairy since almost 2 years. no pizza no ice-cream no yogurts.. nothing.

btw,5'2" and 5'9" who was?

[Red_Dragon]

Though you can notice the difference between my height and my mom's so maybe I'm a couple inches taller. Idk. Give or take.

[Asker]

so i bet you took over your mother's height. i've got 2 cousins who are both 6'2" and their dad (my uncle) is only 5'4" and my aunt is 5'10".. so they took over their mom's height

[Red_Dragon]

Mom 5'2 and dad around 5'9 5'10

[Red_Dragon]

Well I don't know because on my dad's side of the family if you go by his mother's (my grandma) family they are short. If you go by his dad's (my grandpa) family they are tall. However, on my mom's side there is a side of her family that is tall too. One of my cousins is a female who's 6'2 and plays college basketball and her granddad is tall and her dad is tall. So where my short height came from idk. It could be my mom's side or my dad's side.

[Asker]

probably... i guess

[Red_Dragon]

Sorry if I wasn't much help bro :/. I was just being honest.

[Asker]

check my updated question... do you believe i could be shorter if i drank less milk and slept less judging by my parents height?

[Asker]

damn i forgot to mention caffeine in my poll if you were consuming caffeine... what a terrible mistake

[Red_Dragon]

I'm no health doctor or anything, but honestly I don't see how any of that helps much. How old are you? Most men stop growing by 21. If you are still growing then maybe those things can become a factor, but it seems like you're in-between the height of your parents rather well. I've never heard of someone getting shorter just by reducing how much dairy they consumed and not sleeping. If anything I'd think that would help towards losing weight or something. Then again what do I know? You should ask a professional. It doesn't hurt to ask. I'm sure one would be happy to help. Maybe find a health doctor. A pharmacist or something. :)

[Red_Dragon]

I did drink a lot of sodas as a kid, but as I got older I slowed that down. I drunk a lot of Ginger Ale and Ginger Ale doesn't have caffeine in it. Now I hardly ever drink sodas but I do drink frappuccinos.

[Asker]

i can prove it about the weight.. i was obese once and now i'm 2 inches less or so after losing 130 lbs

[Red_Dragon]

Oh you've lose weight and height? That's cool bro. :) I'm glad you are a healthy weight now. That's great man. I know that wasn't easy.

[Asker]

yes because i lost muscle mass and some fat on the top of my head and under my feet. other people who have lost a lot of weight can prove it too. and no i disagree it was very easy. you know why? because i want it very much. i'm the type of person who will do anything in order yto achieve something... as i do now with height. i'm willing to go underneath surgery to succeed. i was very focused on losing weight and i did it... i even starved myself

[Red_Dragon]

Yeah bro no kidding. You are determined.

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[csester]

Milk does absolutely nothing, your height is mostly genetic, and calcium can be obtained from a large variety of foods that are a lot healthier than dairy.

You know that correlation between lactose intolerance and being short? Yeah there isn't one.

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[lanternhill]

I'm 5'7", no idea (probably at least 2 glasses of milk a day so...12-16 oz at least of dairy a day, probably more if we count cheese and yogurt, say 16-20 oz total), probably 8-9 hours at night, and my parents are both 6'0".

[Asker]

what about caffeine during yur teens?

[lanternhill]

I don't know, I drank a lot of coffee starting in college but I think I probably had a cup of coffee every day or every other day. I liked tea too. I'd say a cup of coffee and/or tea every day just to average it out, but probably only for the second half of HS. I don't remember.

[Asker]

WTF that's relatively late. lots of dairy, proper sleep and not so much caffeine during your early teens. yet you ended up that shorter than your parents? unless your grandparents or uncles/aunts were short so that would made some sense

[lanternhill]

I mean I'm the shortest person in my entire extended family - my 13-year-old female cousin is taller than me. My paternal grandmother was short (shorter than me I think) and my dad's family is tall but not enormous; my mom's family is huge, my uncles are all like 6'3"-6'5" and 250-350 lbs, my mom is not even the tallest female (I think my aunt is 6'1"). I'm the shrimp haha. My little brother is like 6'3" by now I think.

[Asker]

not so funny, you must search about it why you ended up shorter than them

[lanternhill]

Why? I'm happy with my height, I'm tall enough and healthy and etc. thank God.
I think I've inherited my body structure from my dad and his mother and somewhat from my maternal grandmother (she was "short" comparatively - 5'9" or 5'10" I think). The only thing I can think of is a period of hunger as a child but my brother turned out super tall so idk.

[Asker]

" The only thing I can think of is a period of hunger as a child " <--- that's it probably

[lanternhill]

Well my brother was actually worse off than me - stopped for a while on the growth chart - but he's huge now lol sooooo idk.

[Asker]

did he do stretches and stuff like that?

[lanternhill]

Maybe? he likes exercise but didn't really as a teenager... idk.

[Asker]

so i guess his height was because of his dad's side family members and hunger didn't affect him?

[lanternhill]

Hunger did affect him though, I told you he stopped growing on the charts for a while (I didn't).

[Asker]

why height must be so confusing... why? :-(

[TryingNewThings]

I'm 5'2"
I ate lots of cheese, eggs and milk not as much.
I slept 8- 9hrs mostly, sometimes 10.
mom- 5'3", dad- 5'8"
(notes- my younger brother is 5'11", and my little sister is 4'11" and they ate and slept very similar to me)

[Asker]

How old is your little sister?

[TryingNewThings]

19yrs

[Asker]

OMG!!! she's done with growth... did she conhsumed caffeine? you?

[TryingNewThings]

We drank caffeinated beverages but I stopped when I was 17, I drink flavored water. She stopped last year due to the headaches it caused. All the women on our dads side of the family are 4'9" to 5' and the men are 5'6" to 5'8". The women on our moms side of the family are 5' to 5'5" and the men are 5'6" to 5'11".
When a baby is born, they measure their length and they can get ab idea of the height they will be. Its further supported when they are 2-3yrs old. If you have a short toddler, they're generally going to be a short adult. My daughter is 2.5yrs and she is shorter than the average little girl her age by 50%. She is about my height when I was her age. My husband is 5'10".

[Asker]

so you took over from females form your dad's family i guess

[TryingNewThings]

I fit between the women in my moms family, my sister with my dads.

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[Anonymous]

lol it's not about dairy..
- How tall are you? - Im 167cm.
- How much dairy did you consume during your teens? - Maybe 1/2 glass a day.
- How many hrs did you sleep during your teens? - Between 5 and 10 hours. Average 7 hours.
- What's your parents height? Dad was 175cm, mom is 163cm.

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[Opinion Owner]

Mostly caffeine from coke. Otherwise maybe 5 cups of tea a week, and thats it.

[Asker]

no coffee?

[Opinion Owner]

Not really.

[DragonWolf]

Im 168-170 cm tall
I drink 1 glass of milk every morning, a little bit of yoghurt with dinner.
i sleep 2-6 hours a day (sometimes less than an hour, sometimes around 8 hours though)
My mum: 164 cm. Dad: 187 or so.

[Lauren2410]

I am 164 cm almost ( so close to 5'4)
I love cheese, milk and so on, so ate them pretty often, still do
I sleep (also slept) between 6 and 9 hours usually
My mother is 158 cm and my dad 182 cm

[Asker]

girls took over mom's height usually so you are taller than her because of dairy i guess? how much your mom consumed during her teens do you know? i want to collect as much info as possible to find the truth about height growth

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[TheNewClassic]

- How tall are you? 172 cm
- How much dairy did you consume during your teens? Normal I guess
- How many hrs did you sleep during your teens? A lot
- What's your parents height? mum: 158 cm /// dad: 182 cm

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[TheNewClassic]

Not at all

[Asker]

ok your own case sounds logical

[dominiquois]

I'm 5'8"
I drank milk whenever I ate cerel or whenever here was no water or juice left, so um a lot, lol.
I slept late but still 7-8 hrs
My mom is 5'2"-5'3" My dad is 6'0"-6-1"

[dominiquois]

*cereal

[Asker]

what about the caffeine?

[dominiquois]

Never have drinken coffee more than 20 times in my life.

[Asker]

ok then your case sounds logical

[dominiquois]

Um, what? Lol.

[Asker]

it's not funny don't laugh. compared to what others said your ccase sounds more closer to what i believe in. and i cannot lead to a conclusion... damn

[dominiquois]

What that tall men and short women create in between children?

[Asker]

if that's what you say then the chances are the child to end up somewhere in the middle... but that's not the only factor for an individual's height

[dominiquois]

What else do you think factors in?

[Asker]

caffeine? dairy? sleep?

[dominiquois]

Oh ok.

[behindthemask]

-5'1
- a lot I drank milk everyday and love cheese
-not enough
- my dad's 6'1 and my mothers 5'3 but my aunt is 5'1 like me

[Asker]

probably it was the lack of sleep that made you shorter than your mom i guess

[behindthemask]

No cause I havnt grown since I was 15 and it was only after that around 16/17 that I started losing a lot of sleep I think I got to from my aunt we're very a like even in personality

[RaeBae]

I'm 5'3. Stopped drinking milk in preschool. I sleep maybe 5 hours (stay up past midnight). My mom is like 5'8. Dad is like 5'10

[Asker]

did you consume caffeine? any other family member was shorter?

[RaeBae]

I consume caffeine on the daily since I was like 3. Both of my grandmothers are short. Both of my great grandmothers are short. One of my pawpaws is short. So mine all makes since

[Asker]

yeah your own case sounds far more logical than others i read hear. that's wht i believe as well, that if you had a lot of caffeine as a teen especially then your growth would be stunted

[RaeBae]

Lol well I started drinking coke and coffee waaaay before i was a teen sooo yea

[aamy811]

I'm 5'2
-um I'm lactose and tolerant, so I drunk soy milk, but only once a month
-I slept 7-8 hours of sleep
-my mothers 5'10 and my dad is 6'1

[Asker]

wtf how did you end up only 5'2" whilst your mom and dad were both above 5'10"? did you consume much caffeine? or your grandparents were short?

[aamy811]

Umm I don't know. My grandma is short 5'5. But in just especially short. I didn't drunk much caffeine. Growing up they all said I'd be tall, but I never was. My doctor was actually concerned. But he thinks it had something to do with my birth, or development in the womb.
Anyways though physically I'm different from my family in every way

[Asker]

you must search about it it's really weird since you didn't have caffeine

[aamy811]

Yup. I'm pretty sure it was my baby development, I was only 2 pounds. But yet I was like the first one to hit puberty. Everything was just weird

[omy90]

5ft9
lot of milk and other milk products, indian food containing milk cos i like it
around 8-10 hrs
dad 5ft9 and mom 5ft4

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[omy90]

not much less than avg.

[AlexCab]

wtf? serious why? what study is behind this? who's running it.

[Asker]

i want to know the truth about the height growth where the hell it depends... a girl here told that she's 5'3" consumed dairy slept properly yet her mom is 5'6" and her dad 5'9"... confusing isn't it?

[AlexCab]

I don't think it is, unless you're into genetics and this poses an actual topic. There's probably a lot of information you can browse in the internet, hope the poll helps you though!

[Asker]

it helps a little bit

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[IsabelleBk]

1,75 cm
none ain't nobody got time for dairy
8hours
my mom is 1,69cm and my dad is 1,92 cm

[Asker]

how much caffeine did you consume during your teens?

[IsabelleBk]

None, I hate coffe

[Asker]

so that's why you become taller than your mom i guess

[IsabelleBk]

Yeah I got more genetics from my dad

[penguin_potato]

Im 5'10"
Drank 16 oz of milk 5 days a week
Slept 8 hrs most nights
My mom is 5'8" dad is 5'9"

[Asker]

what about caffeine?

[penguin_potato]

Maybe 32 oz a week

[Asker]

you consumed more caffeine than milk and yet you ended up taller than your parents... not so extraordinary than other answers but still...

[penguin_potato]

No...16 oz of milk a day for 5 days a week... thats 80 oz a week

[Asker]

oops i was wrong sorry. feel better now

[AutumnBloom]

I'm 5'9
On rare occasions
Fluctuated
Mom 5'6 dad 5'7.5
I drank coffee majority of the time

[Asker]

and you become taller than both your parents whilst you drank coffee? damn i cannot find out what the hell is happening with the poll, everybody says things that don't much up together

[AutumnBloom]

I had an early growth spurt I wanted to try to make myself shorter (the old saying: coffee stunts your growth) and it didn't do anything :/