How much can junkfood stunt growth?

[Anonymous]

From when I was around 12-15 I ate a lot of chips. Everyday. Also ate ice cream more or less every day in a year or so. Typically I'd eat a pizza (without cheese) for lunch. Though this aside, I ate normal and relatively healthy foods (not so much fruit though) and did little to no exercise at all. Was 15-20 kg overweight for some years.

Do you think this can have stunted my growth? If so, by how much? I'm 18 now and only 170-171.5 cm (5"7) I was 34 inches at 2 years so I'm supposed to be 5"9.

Considering I've been eating very healthy from 17+ will I still be able to reach my full height?

Thanks..

[Yeahhbro]

junk food doesn't necessarily stunt your growth, maybe it was because the lack of calcium and other nutrients and the lack of physical exercise.

Ps it is impossible to know by how much exactly, I mean how tall is your dad? Usually men are 2 inches taller than their dad.

[Asker]

He's from the south and is only around 5"5 or 5"6.. My mom is 5"6 too. But almost all the family on my mom's side is tall, her father being 6"1 or so, but idk.

And yeah, I drank milk until age 5, then no more

[Yeahhbro]

yeah it probably was lack of nutrients, phusical exercise.

[just_tired]

Height is mostly defined by genes. Bad diet can affect it a little bit but not too much.

Parents' height doesn't even always tell how tall you're going to be. All people have short genes and tall genes. People just have different amounts of one or the other. You might have just inherited a lot of short genes. It's possible to still have a growth spurt after the age of 18 so who knows..

[Konnour]

I was eating tons of junk food in teens and I'm 6"1 tall and also never been overweight.

So...

[Konnour]

...in your case you're probably just overweight for your height because of junk food, not suffering from "stunted growth" for your supposedly-'normal' weight.

[Asker]

Alright. But we're talking exccessive amounts here.. I don't think chips EVERYDAY is normal.

:p

[Konnour]

I was eating chips every day!

[Asker]

Wow, ok.

[Anonymous]

Junk food won't stunt your growth, it'll just make you generally unhealthy and prone to sickness.