Height Calculator

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To calculate your maximum natural height based on your parents and grandparents’ height, use the following formula:

• Your father’s height = F cm (inches)
• Your mother’s height = M cm (inches)
• Your father’s father’s height = FF cm (inches)
• Your father’s mother’s height = FM cm (inches)
• Your mother’s father’s height = MF cm (inches)
• Your mother’s mother’s height = MM cm (inches)

If you are a male, with 95% certainty,

Your Maximum Natural Height in cm (inches) = (F + M + FF + FM + MF + MM) / 6 * 1.08 + 8.8 cm (3.5 inches)

If you are a male, with 99% certainty,

Your Maximum Natural Height in cm (inches) = (F + M + FF + FM + MF + MM) / 6 * 1.08 + 14 cm (5.5 inches)

If you are a female, with 95% certainty,

Your Maximum Natural Height in cm (inches) = (F + M + FF + FM + MF + MM) / 6 * 0.92 + 6.4 cm (2.5 inches)

If you are a female, with 99% certainty,

Your Maximum Natural Height in cm (inches) = (F + M + FF + FM + MF + MM) / 6 * 0.92 + 11.4 cm (4.5 inches)

Extensive statistic and scientific research shows the average height of males is equivalent to the average height of their parents and grandparents multiply by a conversion factor of 1.08. This will be most males’ natural height. However, 95 out of 100 males’ maximum possible natural height is below the sum of their natural height plus 8.8 cm (3.5 inches), and 99 out of 100 males’ maximum possible natural height is below the sum of their natural height plus 14 cm (5.5 inches).

Similarly, the average height of females is equivalent to the average height of their parents and grandparents multiply by a conversion factor of 0.92. This will be most females’ natural height. However, 95 out of 100 females’ maximum possible natural height is below the sum of their natural height plus 6.4 cm (2.5 inches), and 99 out of 100 females’ maximum possible natural height is below the sum of their natural height plus 11.4 cm (4.5 inches).

Height Statistics

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Did you know that the country with the tallest people overall is the Netherlands? The males average 6 feet and the females average just over 5’ 7. The average American male height is 5’ 9 while the females average 5’ 4.

The Dutch may have the tallest country, but the tallest people in the world reside in an Eastern European republic called Montenegro which is part of the country of Serbia and Montenegro. The former Yugoslavia. If Montenegro were it’s own country, it would have the tallest people in the world. And the Dutch wouldn’t even be close.

The average male in Montenegro is 6’3 while the females average just under 5, 11. The average female is taller than the average American male.

There are over 5.5 million American males that are 6’ 2 or taller. 1 in 7 American males is 6 feet or taller, about 15% of the population. 1 in 2 Dutch males is 6 feet or taller i.e. 50% of the population.

There are over 1.5 million American females 5’ 9 or taller. The average Japanese male is 5 feet, 5 1/8 inches tall.

Each generation seems to be getting taller. The main factor is nutrition.

Since poor people hundreds of years ago and even a few generations ago had poor unbalanced diets that lacked what they needed to grow properly, they in effect stunted their own growth. This brought down the average height for most countries.

It is general knowledge that wealthier people are on average a couple of inches taller than poorer people based solely on nutrition.

Generations ago, the differences in height between wealthy and poor were even more pronounced because of malnutrition among poor people. The gap in nutrition between wealthy and poor has closed significantly in recent generations.

The height gap has also closed but not completely caught up. Wealthy people are still taller and that can be attributed to genetics. Over the years they built up a genetic height advantage based mainly on their diets.

Why do some wealthy nations such as Japan and other Asian nations still lag in their height? A lot has to do with the types of food they traditionally eat. Although the Japanese are still way shorter than Americans and Europeans, they are slowly catching up and growing at a faster rate.

The reason? Their diets are changing. The Japanese have recently passed the Chinese and for the first time in history they are now taller than the Chinese.

Guidelines For Exercising

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Here are a few things to bear in mind before exercising:

1. Wear loose clothing that does not restrict movement.
2. Stretching exercises should be performed bare-footed.
3. Empty your bladder and bowel before you begin.
4. Warm up before exercising.
5. Perform the stretching exercises slowly and smoothly in a controlled manner. This applies to going into a position and coming out of it.
6. Stretch to a point and hold for 30-seconds. Do not worry if you cannot hold for 30 seconds when you have just begun. As your muscles become more flexible, you will gradually be able to hold for longer periods.
7. Do not strain yourself beyond the point where you feel pain. If any exercise causes your legs to tingle, feel numb, or weak, discontinue the exercise.
8. Relax while stretching. Only a relaxed muscle will allow itself to be stretched.
9. Breathe naturally and smoothly.
10. Be patient and persistent. Do not rush or force yourself in any way.

Breathing

Before you begin any exercise, you need to learn how to breathe properly. Here are the importance of proper breathing.

1. prevent illness (colds, coughing, bronchitis, tuberculosis, etc.)
2. feel well
3. rid your lungs of impurities and waste (carbon monoxide, lactic acid etc.)
4. carry oxygen to millions of cells (it has been proven that deep breathing carries ten times more oxygen to your organs)
5. combat fatigue
6. increase your energy level
7. calm your nerves
8. sleep better
9. add color to your complexion as proper breathing increases blood circulation

To increase your height, it is important that your blood is oxygenated as blood provides nourishment to your bones. Regular breathing will also purify your blood. Your lungs are likened to balloons. When pressure is exerted on them, the air must leave. Otherwise, your breathing is blocked and it could cause you harm.

How to breathe properly while exercising

There are three phases to breathing:

1. Inhaling – take in air into your body through the nose
2. Retaining – hold your breath inside your body
3. Exhaling – blow out air from your body through the mouth

Perform your exercises in a well ventilated room so that you will fill your lungs with unpolluted air. For each exercise, breathe deeply. Exhaling is usually longer than inhaling because it is essential to empty all air from your lungs.

How To Look Taller?

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By cleverly organising the visual elements of clothes and their design, you can manipulate the way your body
is perceived and make yourself appear taller. To beat up your height disadvantages when you are on a job
interview or a romantic date, follow these tips:

Hair style

Have the hair style that makes you appear taller. In order to appear taller, a hair style should be thin at the sides
and higher up top, which can make you appear as much as an inch taller. Do not have any wide hair style.
Also, a bald head can makes a person appear shorter.

Clothes

• Avoid clothes with horizontal lines. Belts are horizontal so make sure you conceal it in your clothes.
• Avoid clothes with a tartan or checked pattern.
• Avoid cuffs that makes your legs appear shorter.
• Wear clothes with vertical lines or striping. Vertical lines or stripping make a person appear thinner, and thinness in turn gives impression of more height.
• Avoid wearing sharply contrasting clothes and pants together, these will easily expose the real length of your legs and make you look shorter.
• Wear clothes with shoulder pads. Shoulder pads make your shoulders appear broader and your whole body slender.
• Wear shoes that will make you appear taller. If you are a female, this should be easy since you can find a lot of female shoes with 2 or 3 inches’ heels. For males, wear shoes with thick soles to add the illusion of height.
• Avoid clothes that are made from heavy and bulky fabric. They add width and hence shorten the image visually.
• Wear cuffless pants to make the legs look longer.
• Wear a coat or jacket that is of the perfect length. They should end where the buttocks meet the legs.

Color

• Match your pants’ color with your shoes color to make the legs look longer.
• Lengthen your upper torso by wearing a belt that matches your top.
• Dark colors such as black, navy blue, and charcoal grey projects power and competency. Lighter colors make you appear more approachable. If you want a commanding and confident image, try wearing dark colors.

Nutrition For Growing Taller Part VII – General Guidelines

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What do we need to eat? What kind of diet do we need to follow? What you eat and when you eat is more important than how much you eat. You should eat as much as you are comfortable with. And if you regularly follow the exercises mentioned in Pelkin Lab, your body will rule the amounts of food you eat.

In our case, the main goal is to force your body to grow taller, which mostly depends on the level of growth hormone in your body. There are three ways to increase growth hormone level:

1) Through physical activities and the right diet

2) Growth hormone releasing products

3) By injections of manmade growth hormone

I prefer not to go with the last two choices. The natural way may not work as fast, but it is the only safe way to increase you height!

Before I describe what to eat, I want you to understand the process of growth hormone release. I want you to feel confident about what you are doing. After every meal, our bodies go through a three-stage cycle:

1) In the first hour after eating, our blood sugar rises and insulin (a hormone responsible for the metabolism of sugar) is released, which supports the storage of excess carbohydrates and fat.

2) After the second hour, release of growth hormone begins and the level of insulin and blood sugar starts to fall. Growth hormone acts to build up muscle and bone protein, with the help of insulin.

3) Four or more hours after eating, the growth hormone concentrations are still at a high level, while insulin almost disappears. At this stage, growth hormone is breaking down the body’s fat, using it as a fuel to create energy.

If the growth hormone level remains low, insulin is free to turn almost every calorie into fat for later use. That is why we are gaining fat! If the insulin level remains low, growth hormone can melt away fat (our energy storage). Insulin and growth hormone are both our friends, and the balance between them is very important.

So, how can we keep this balance? Simple! Just keep doing the exercises mentioned in Pelkin Lab and you will not only get taller, you will also become much healthier in every way, and you will see how the shape of your body gets closer and closer to perfection.

Conclusion

A successful effort to grow taller should be a combination of these three most important factors:

1. Proper Nutrition
2. Exercise
3. Sufficient Sleep

So it is imperative for you to learn how to balance all of these three factors. If you put 100% of your effort into exercise, but pay no attention to your nutrition and do not have sufficient sleep, you may only be able to achieve 50% of your actual potential.

This is the #1 reason why so many people are frustrated with the results of their efforts in growing taller. They try very hard to grow taller, but the results are always far less than they expect. Most people do not understand that the human growth process consists of a whole complicated set of mechanisms. If even one of those many mechanisms does not work well, the whole process will be set back or even broken down.

There are other factors which contribute to your success in growing taller, such as your posture but the above three factors are the most important ones that you must balance in order to grow taller.

You now have a very good understanding of the role Nutrition plays in your quest to grow taller. But proper nutrition by itself will not help you in growing taller. You need to do the right kinds of exercises to stimulate your height increase.

The amazing and proven Pelkin Lab exercise program is designed specifically to help you increase your height regardless of age. The exercises in this program will stimulate overall growth and height gain, lengthen the spinal column, improve posture, and straighten any excessive curvature of the spine.

These exercises are fully illustrated, with simple and easy to understand instructions. Each exercise has its benefits and purpose stated, and provides you with step-by-step technique. These exercises are safe, effective, and easy to do by people of all ages and fitness levels. They require no special equipment or apparatus and can be done in the privacy of your own home.

This specially developed program contains tried and tested principles and a revolutionary exercise program that will increase your height in a natural way. With the help of these principles and exercise program, any individual can succeed in increasing their height to their heart’s desire.

Nutrition For Growing Taller Part VI – Water

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Water is the basic nutrient in our body, and is involved in almost every biological process. Water regulates body temperature, moisturizes skin, maintains muscle strength, and lubricates all joints.

80% of our body is made up of water and we depend on it. We cannot survive even a few days without water. You should drink at least 1.5 liters of water every day. It is very important not to let your body dehydrate.

One glass of plain water with 1 tablespoon of honey is the first thing you should have in the morning after you wake-up. Drink 1/2 the glass of water, eat honey, and then finish your water. This “morning start” will not only wake you up and give you enough energy for morning exercises, it will also add a few years to your life. If you do not like it in the beginning, try it again. You may find that it grows on you! Drink it every morning for years to come, and you will feel much healthier just because of this.

Nutrition For Growing Taller V – Fats

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Another common diet that will stunt height growth is one that includes too much fat. There are two kinds of fats: saturated fats and unsaturated fats.

Saturated fats are mostly bad since they have high contents of cholesterol, which can cause heart disease because arteries could be clogged with fatty material. Also, saturated fats contain large amount of calories, which can easily increase your weight. Extra weight is the enemy of height since the more weight you have, the shorter you appear. So avoid eating excessive saturated fats. Animal meat like chicken, pork, beef are rich in saturated fats. So you should avoid eating them too much.

Unsaturated fats are much better since they contain much lower amount of cholesterol and calories. Since you do need some fats to insulate your body and regulate your metabolism, you had better ingest more unsaturated fats to satisfy your body’s needs.

Vegetable oils contains large amount of unsaturated fats. Commonly used unsaturated vegetable oils are corn, soy, cottonseed, and safflower oils. Note that raw milk and butter contains lots of saturated fats, so you should drink skim milk and cook with vegetable oils instead of butter. Sweet foods like cookie, cake, ice cream also have very high contents of saturated fats and calories and you should restrict yourself from eating them too much.

Eating foods that are low in fat will allow the body to continue releasing growth hormone. Fats should not constitute more than 30% of your daily diet.

Nutrition For Growing Taller Part IV – Carbohydrates

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A common regular diet that will stunt height growth is one that includes too much carbohydrate. Carbohydrates are usually rich in foods like rice, bread, potatoes, corn, and other cereal grains. Avoid eating too much carbohydrate since they contain lots of energy (calories) but few vital nutrients that can help your body to grow.

This is actually the reason why Asians are shorter than their European and American counterparts. Asian diet is mainly consisted of carbohydrates; foods like rice and corn, but Europeans and Americans consume more protein-rich foods. So do not have a diet consisting mainly of rice, bread, potatoes, or cereal grains if you want to grow taller!

Another important factor is the Glycemic Index. The glycemic index measures how fast carbohydrates are absorbed into the bloodstream and how long it takes to raise your blood sugar level. Typically, this absorption will take place over a two to three hour period, depending on the person and the food being consumed.

The glycemic index is a scale, meaning that a standard food is chosen and that food is equal to 100. Foods are then assigned values relative to the value of the standard food. Normally white bread is considered the standard food.

The scale below is a basic part of the growth hormone diet because when we eat food with a high glycemic index, blood sugar is raised which, in turn, raises the level of insulin in the blood. High insulin does not let the growth hormone work efficiently.

The following are the Glycemic values for various foods with White Bread as the Standard food value.

152 Maltose	80 Potato, new, boiled	54 Brown beans
138 Glucose	80 Cookies, rich tea	53 Apple
134 Cooked parsnips	79 Rice, polished, boiled 15 min	52 Yogurt
132 Puffed rice	79 Fruit cocktail	52 Tomato soup
128 Potato, Russet, baked	78 Cookies, oatmeal	52 Ice cream
126 Honey	77 Potato chips	52 Fish fingers
121 Rice, instant, boiled 6 min	74 Yam	50 Lima beans
118 Potato, instant	74 Peaches, canned	50 Green peas, dried
117 Cooked carrots	74 Buckwheat	49 Whole milk
115 Corn flakes	74 All Bran	49 Chick peas (Garbanzo)
109 Broad beans (Fava beans)	70 Potato, sweet	48 2% milk
103 Millet	69 Grapefruit juice	47 Rye kernels
100 Tortilla, corn	68 Bread, rye pumpernickel	46 Skim milk
100 Potato, mashed	67 Orange juice	46 Butter beans
100 Bread, wheat, whole meal	66 Pineapple juice	46 Black eye peas
100 Bread, wheat, white	65 Rice, parboiled, boiled 25 min	46 Apricots, dried
99 Rutabaga (Swede)	65 Rice, instant, boiled 1 min	45 Spaghetti, white, boiled 5 min
99 Corn chips	65 Green peas, marrow fat	45 Kidney beans
97 Shredded wheat	65 Green peas, frozen	43 Black beans
96 Muesli (raw oat cereal)	65 Bulgur	40 Peaches
95 Cookies	64 Macaroni, white, boiled 5 min	39 Sausages
95 Bread, rye, crisp bread	63 Wheat kernels	38 Pasta, spaghetti, protein enriched
94 Mars Bar	63 Sponge cake	37 Red lentils
91 Cookies, plain crackers	63 Pears, canned	34 Plum
91 Apricots, canned	62 Grapes	31 Fructose
89 SUCROSE	61 Spaghetti, white, boiled 15 min	31 Barley (pearled)
89 Bread, rye, whole meal	61 Spaghetti, brown, boiled 15 min	22 Soy beans, canned
88 Raisins	60 Baked beans (canned)	20 Soy beans, dried
88 Beet root	59 Orange	15 Peanuts
87 Porridge oats	59 Apple juice	12 Bengal Gram Dal
84 Banana	58 Rice, polished, boiled 5 min	10 Nopal (prickly pear)
82 Cookies, digestive	58 Pears
81 Rice, brown	57 Haricot (white) beans
81 Pastry	54 Rice, parboiled, boiled 5 min
80 Sweet corn	54 Pasta, star white, boiled 5 min

You need to eat more carbohydrate foods with a low glycemic index. Consider foods with a value of 85 and under for your diet. I’m not saying you should never eat food with a higher level of glycemic. Athletes, for example, need to eat foods with high glycemic carbohydrates during the 2-3 days before serious competitions in order to maximize energy output. The reason for this is that they need fuel for these extreme physical activities. So, sometimes, in stressful situations you may go with a little higher value. But in most cases, try to stay on the low end of the glycemic index. This will help your body to increase the release of growth hormone.

Nutrition For Growing Taller Part III – Proteins

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Proteins

Proteins are the foundation of all life. They manage very important activities of the body such as carrying oxygen in the blood, maintaining water and acid base balance, and maintaining growth of cells and tissue. About one-half of your dry body made of protein (about 80% of our full body is water). And you have about 0.5 to 1 gram of protein per kilogram of your body weight if you’re just starting to exercise, and you should have up to 2 grams per kilogram of body weight after 2-3 months of continuous exercise.

In order to grow taller, your body needs proteins, vitamins and minerals more readily than carbohydrates and fats. They are essential in the diet of animals for the growth and repair of tissue and thus you should ingest large amount of protein if you want to grow taller.

There are basically two types of Protein, “Complete Protein” and “Incomplete Protein”.

Complete Protein provides the proper balance of eight necessary amino acids that build tissues, and are found in foods of animal organ such as meats, poultry, seafood, eggs, milk and cheese.

Incomplete Protein lacks certain essential amino acids and is not used efficiently when eaten alone. However, when it is combined with small amounts of animal source proteins, it becomes complete. It is found in seeds, nuts, peas, grains and beans.

The best foods for complete proteins are fish, eggs, milk, lean meat, soy products and legumes. These foods contain most of the 20 amino acids, including the 8 essential amino acids that are not synthesized by your body. Therefore, replace rice, bread, and hamburger with fish, eggs, and skim milk.

One of the most effective proteins is soy protein. The best sources of soy protein are soy milk, soy nuts, and soy flour. Egg whites are pure protein. A mixture of egg whites from hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise with a little salt is good to eat 3-4 times a week.

Another recipe is the protein shake: mix 2-5 boiled egg whites, 1 to 2 bananas, 3-6 strawberries, 1 teaspoon of vanilla in blender at high speed. You can add soy protein or milk or even vegetables. Try different proportions to match your taste. Drink this shake once or twice a day between meals or after exercise, and a smaller shake right before you go to bed. Protein should account for 25% to 30% of your diet.

List of Amino Acids:

Amino Acid	Food Sources	Benefits
Arginine	Brown rice, Carob proteins, Chocolate, Nuts, Oatmeal, Popcorn, Raisins, Raw cereals, Sesame seeds, Sunflower seeds, Whole-wheat products	Functions as building block of all proteins. Stimulates human growth hormone
L-Lysine	Cheese, Eggs, Fish, Lima beans, Milk, Potatoes, Red meat, Soy products, Yeast	Functions as essential building block of all proteins. Promotes growth, tissue repair and production of antibodies, hormones, enzymes
Tyrosine	Almonds, Avocados, Bananas, Cheese, Cottage cheese, Lima beans, Non-fat dried milk, Peanuts, Pickled herring, Pumpkin seeds, Sesame seeds	Functions as building block of all proteins. Can induce significant short-term increases of blood levels of norepinephrine, dopamine and epinephrine. May be harmful at times and helpful at others. Don’t take without medical supervision
Taurine	Avocados, Dairy products, Red meats, especially lamb and beef, Tempeh (fermented soybean product)	Promotes normal growth and development
Folic Acid	Barley, Beans, Brewer’s yeast, Calves’ liver, Endive Fruits, Garbanzo beans (chickpeas), Green leafy vegetables, Lentils, Oranges, Peas, Rice, Soybeans, Split peas, Sprouts, Wheat, Wheat germ	Promotes normal red blood cell formation. Maintains nervous system, intestinal tract, sex organs, white blood cells, normal patterns of growth. Regulates embryonic and fetal development of nerve cells. Promotes normal growth and development. Treats anemia due to folic-acid deficiency occurring from alcoholism, liver disease, hemolytic anemia, spruce, pregnancy breast-feeding, oral-contraceptive use

Nutrition For Growing Taller Part II – Vitamins

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Vitamins

Vitamins are organic substances necessary for life and essential for growth. To receive the proper vitamin intake, a well-balanced diet is recommended. However, supplements may be taken where needed but not as a substitute for food. Supplements should be taken after each square meal, or once after the largest meal for proper absorption.

Vitamins	Food Sources	Benefits
Vitamin A	Animal liver, milk, yellow and green vegetables such as carrots and broccoli	Converted to retinal; essential for growth and differentiation of cells as well as normal vision
Vitamin B6	Animal liver, beef, kidney, green leafy vegetables like cabbage	Properly assimilates protein and fat; works as a natural diuretic
Vitamin B12	Cheese, animal liver, kidney, pork and beef	Forms and generates red blood cells; increase energy and promotes growth
Vitamin C	Citrus fruits, tomatoes, berries, cauliflower and green leafy vegetables like cabbage	Helps synthesis of collagen and other intercellular substances; formation of bone matrix and tooth dentin, intercellular cement and metabolism of several amino acids
Vitamin D	Egg yolk, fish oils, milk, butter, and margarine	Promotes calcium absorption from digestive tract; essential for normal growth and maintenance of bone
Vitamin E	Wheat germ, eggs, soy beans, green leafy vegetables such as spinach and broccoli	Supplies oxygen to the body cells; essential for virility; prevents cholesterol deposits in arteries
Vitamin K	Egg yolk, fish, animal liver, soybean, and green vegetables	Aids in proper blood clotting, helps prevent internal bleeding and hemorrhage