Does Your Lifestyle Affects Your Height And Body Shape – healthytalk8

Body shape and Height

Our height and body shape are influenced by a person’s diet, genetics, and lifestyle. It says that according to our height, our weight should be.

Scientists believe that genetics and DNA are responsible for about 80% of a person’s height.

Our body shape says a lot about our health, but the thing to remember here is that it is just a factor. People of all shapes and sizes can be healthy.

As we age, our height and the shape of our body also increase or change.

You cannot undo some of these changes. but your lifestyle can affect your height by making you (short or long) and your body shape (pear or triangle).

Know – Ideal Weight According To Our Height

The shape of our body is determined by looking at the 3 points of our body – shoulders, waist, bust, and hips. which include:

• Pear Shape: People with this shape are mostly women, who have extra fat in the hip and thigh area.

• Apple Shape: This shape is also called beer belly, which is common in men, has a wider waist and the stomach protrudes a lot, due to fat build-up around the stomach.

• Ruler: In this, the chest, waist, and hip sizes are all similar.

• Hourglass: This body shape is more visible in girls whose upper body and lower bellies are equally distributed. and the waist is small and well-defined.

• Inverted triangle: This body, has broad shoulders, and large bust, and narrow hips.

Most children grow in height by the age of 18. before that, genetic, and environmental reasons can also bring changes to it like

• Rapid growth due to genes.
• A healthy diet plan can also affect your height positively.

Our height depends on our bones, and in bone, there is a cartilage known as cartilage where new bone tissue is formed.

What Affects Your Body Shape?

There is multiple lifestyle reason that affects your body shape and weight. which include:

Factors That Affect Body Shape

Aging – Body shape naturally changes as we age, aging makes our skin thinner, and the fatty tissue under the skin begins to reduce and less elastic.

Poor lifestyle – No exercise, and no running, lead to an apple shape.

It is often a sign that has deeper fat inside, resulting in more risk of heart disease, cancer, high cholesterol level, etc.

Physical activity – Exercise plays a vital role in building body shape, that’s why most young teenagers and obese people go to the gym.

Factors Affect Weight

1. S*x – S*x does not increase your weight, but the imbalance of s*xual hormones can affect your body weight.

3 to 4 times per week, can lose weight by burning calories. and researchers say that 100 to 300 calories can be burnt in 30-minute intercourse.

But excessive masturbation and s*x may lead to premature ejaculation, risk of bladder, and infections.

2. Diet – The type of diet you take can affect your weight. if you eat and drink too much, you may gain weight. and not taking proper diet, weight is also reduced.

3. Stress – It is one of the common reasons for weight loss and excessive weight gain, And I have personally experienced it.

However, chronic stress can lead to raised cholesterol level that stimulates your appetite, resulting in weight gain, or difficulty losing unwanted kg.

Excessive alcohol is not good for men and women, especially for pregnant ladies because stress is directly connected to the child.

4. Family history and Genes – Being overweight and obese can also come from family.

If your parents are overweight, so your chance of being overweight may also increase.

Their genes can affect the amount of fat stored in your body.

5. Proper sleep – People who are getting enough sleep can gain weight by eating more calories and weight loss can also be seen due to lack of sleep.

Although, studies have shown that frequent sleep breaks can increase the risk of metabolic disorders, weight gain, and other chronic diseases.

What Affects Our Height?

There are many factors affecting our height and most of the factors cannot be controlled. this is because they are determined by DNA, which we cannot change.

NOTE: However, some factors can increase or decrease during childhood and puberty.

Here is some factor that affects your height are:

Hormones

Our body produces 3 main hormones that instruct the growth plates to make new bone:

• Growth hormone: It is produced by our brain’s pituitary gland and controls our height, bone length, and muscle growth.
• S*x hormone: Testosterone and estrogen play a very vital role in growth during puberty.
• Thyroid gland: It also produces the hormone, that affects growth.

Diet

The type of diet you take also depends on how much your height will increase in childhood.

Nutritionists recommend that children should consume all fruits and vegetables till an average age or even after that which is vital for increasing height.

DNA

DNA is the most important factor that determines a person’s height.

Scientists’ research has shown that over 700 different genes have been identified that determine height.

Some of these genes affect the growth plate and some others affect the production of hormones.

But some genetic conditions can affect a person’s adult height including Marfan and Down syndrome.

NOTE: Scientists believe that about 80% of a person’s length is determined by DNA.

Gender

This is true that usually, males are taller than women, and males grow to continue longer than females.

According to the Weather India site – the average height of Indian men is 5.8 feet, and the average female is 5.3 feet.

But earlier, the average height of men was 5,6, and females were considered to be 5 feet.

Sleep

Yes, adequate sleep can promote growth and development in babies because during quality sleep the body releases the hormones it needs to grow.

Apart from this, sleep can affect our lifestyle like – an increase in stress, headache, high blood pressure, etc.

Regular Exercise

No hard or supporting evidence claims that hanging, swimming, running, regular exercise, and climbing, can increase your height.

What does Research Say About – Height?

Do you know that while the height is increasing all over the world, the height of people is decreasing in India, which is a matter of concern?

A study by the JNU Center of social media and community health center revealed that people’s heights is decreasing in recent times in India.

NOTE: According to NFHS data, there has been a decline in height in recent decades.

It was found that in India from 2005 to 2006, the average height was 164.4 cm, which decreased from 2015 to 2016 to 163.8 cm.

Between 2005 to 2015, the average person’s height was reduced by 1.8 cm for 15 to 25 years old and the height of 26 to 50-year-old year person was reduced by 0.8 cm.

The height of women of 15 to 25 years decreased by 0.12 cm.

Apart from this, there was a decrease of 0.5 cm in the height of economic women and 0.42 cm in the height of tribal women.

If we Look at the last 40 to 50 years, the Japanese and European countries have increased their height by 7 cm compared to India.

Apart from Japan, if we talk about the highest-height countries in the world, then

• Netherland (average height – 6.03 feet)
• Montenegro (average height – 6.01 feet)
• Denmark (average height – 5.99 feet)

Down Line

Scientists believe that about 80% of a person’s length is determined by DNA.

Excessive masturbation and s*xual activity may lead to premature ejaculation, risk of bladder, and kind of infections.