In the process of children's growth and development, there are two growth peak, one is the infancy, the other is puberty. Infancy is 0 to 1 year old, this phase is to grow the fastest and most vulnerable to outside interference. The stand or fall of infant growth directly affect the growth of the infancy, childhood, and the growth of childhood for puberty to lay the foundation. Scientific studies have found that the height of children at the age of 2 and the correlation of adult height is 80%, therefore, don't let the children in the growth period of rapid left behind, otherwise is very difficult to catch up.

Pay attention to nutrition

Sufficient and reasonable nutrition is the material base of children's growth and development. Adequate nutrition is refers to the daily intake enough heat energy and various nutrients, including protein, fat, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins, inorganic salt and water. These nutrients are found in food, eggs, meat, milk, beans, and foods such as vegetables and fruits. The average family has the ability to provide children with adequate food, need scientific feeding and reasonable collocation is the problem. In the blue of the diet, nutrition should be comprehensive and the full amount. Many insufficient growth of children has close relationship with poor nutrition.

Now city children protein intake, but trace elements are often inadequate intake due to the partial eclipse, such as zinc, iron, calcium, a variety of vitamins, cellulose, etc. Zinc deficiency may cause growth retardation, anorexia, reduce the body's resistance, easy to cause repeated infection; The growth of bone need plenty of calcium, phosphorus, Iron deficiency anemia caused by slow growth, the normal growth of hematopoietic organs also require the participation of copper. Now some parents have a nutritional error, think to strengthen nutrition is to eat more fish, fowl can not eat or eat less food. The body of the energy needed to mainly acquired from carbohydrates, and protein in energy under the premise of fully to be use. Protein intake too much, not only increase the burden of liver and kidney, easy to cause indigestion, constipation, but also restrain the appetite of children. After some children nutrition surplus caused obesity, easy to cause precocious puberty, eventually make it short.

So, at the same time of guarantee amount, eat right, reasonable collocation and diversification, the thickness is tie-in, hun vegetable collocation, not picky eaters, not a partial eclipse. More don't eat snacks too much and influence important nutrients intake. Parents should be fostered children good eating habits.

Don't ignore exercise

On the premise of guarantee adequate nutrition, physical activity is to promote physical development, and the most effective way to enhance physical fitness. Although the movement itself doesn't increase the height of genetic scheduled, but exercise can get maximum play to promote genetic potential. According to the study, regular exercise children than children don't at least an average 2-3 cm high. Sports can stimulate growth hormone secretion, promote the metabolism, increase appetite. Children often engaged in sports, can promote the growth of the bone, make the bone lengthening, coarse, increase bone density. Regular exercise, also make the muscle fibers became thicker and enhance the muscle strength, speed and endurance. Sports can also burn excess fat, in the fast growing period to prevent obesity. Now children generally outdoor activities is not enough, not fully enjoy the sunshine and fresh air, did not have enough exercise, this is not conducive to the child grow taller. Therefore, children in outdoor activities, 1 hours a day, it is very necessary.

Parents can choose according to the child's age, interest and other sports, exercise on the premise of safety with children:

Jumping movement, such as rope skipping, high jump, long jump, running and so on, helps to grow limbs.

Stretching, such as horizontal bar pull-ups, sit-ups, before and after bending, gymnastics and a variety of sports suspension, help spinal bones and four limbs which extend.

Systemic sports: basketball, volleyball, badminton, football and swimming and so on, is advantageous to the whole body bone extend.

Assure enough sleep

Promote human growth hormone, growth hormone, in the sleep state of the amount of secretion is awake, about three times, so get plenty of sleep is helpful to grow taller. Sleep muscle relax, stretch to joints and bones. The length of sleeping time differ with age, each individual also has the very big difference, sleep time needed for a day and night: newborns for 16 ~ 20 hours, 1-3 years old to 12 or 14 hours, 4 to 6 years old is about 11 ~ 12 hours.

To make the children have enough sleep, pay attention to develop good sleep habits. For fast growing children, reasonable arrangement of learning, exercise, sleep and rest is very important.

Active prevention and treatment of disease

A variety of physiological dysfunction caused acute or chronic disease directly influence on children's growth can be, but the impact depending on where the disease occurs, the length of the course of the disease and the severity of the illness. Acute disease commonly performed effect is temporary, especially in the case of good nutrition, can recover soon. But repeated respiratory tract infection and diarrhea can significantly prevent the growth of children. Chronic diseases such as chronic infections, chronic hepatitis, chronic nephritis, asthma, heart disease, anemia, etc all can affect height growth. In addition, such as the abnormal chromosome, endocrine disease, bone and cartilage, developmental disorders such as major disease, cause height is obviously lower than their peers, pathological short is called on medicine. Active prevention and treatment of disease, therefore, the growth period of children have very important sense, through the early diagnosis and treatment, the growth of some diseases damage can be recovered fully or partially.