Does football make you taller? (2024)

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1. The benefits of football sport

Playing football has many mental and physical health benefits for children. For example:
Improve heart health: Reduce the risk of high blood pressure, stroke, stable heart function, endurance health and maintain a fit body. Maintain flexibility, endurance, good balance for the body by increasing the strength of the musculoskeletal system. Thereby, contributing to strengthening the child's immune system. Burn fat and calories: Running and jumping helps to burn a large amount of stored fat, thereby expending excess energy, helping children maintain a healthy body shape, reducing the risk of diabetes. Very useful for overweight and obese children. Improve children's confidence and self-esteem: Especially for children with autism, participating in many group activities will reduce hyperactivity. Forming a positive character: Participating in a group from an early age helps children have the opportunity to interact with many friends, thereby developing communication skills as well as training a sense of discipline and hard work. In addition, when children play football, it also helps to reduce stress, anxiety, and the risk of depression. Children also feel comfortable after school hours. From there, maintaining mental health stability, limiting negative effects.

2. Do children who play soccer increase their height?

Adequate quality and timed physical activities contribute to height improvement, however football is not the preeminent sport chosen for promoting height growth. Sports are recommended to be useful for improving height, because it creates a stretch for the body such as badminton, basketball, volleyball, swimming with a minimum practice frequency of 5 sessions/week and every day. session for at least 40 minutes.

3. Measures to promote children's height

To maximize the height potential of children, parents need to pay attention to the following factors:
Firstly, apply a scientific diet
Nutrition is very important for both height and weight . Parents who want their children to grow taller need to supplement with all groups of substances: Starch, protein, fat, vitamins and minerals. In particular, bones need a lot of calcium, collagen (mainly type 2), vitamins D, K, magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, iron... to develop.
In order to have a suitable weight for height, parents need to balance nutrition with ways such as: adding more fiber in the diet, reducing the amount of fat in the body (limiting sweet foods, foods, etc.) processed foods, carbonated soft drinks...), eat a lot of fruits and vegetables to get more vitamins.
Drinking enough water every day is also very important. Water acts as a transmitter, participating in most of the transport processes in the body. Water is considered a lubricant, helping joints work flexibly. The amount of water a child consumes affects the level of bone activity because healthy bones contain about 31% water (nearly a third of bone structure).
Second, regularly exercise and sports
Movement is the best form of physical exercise. In addition to improving overall health, children who regularly exercise or play sports will quickly grow in height. Besides, the habit of exercise also stimulates the body to naturally produce growth hormone, improves sleep quality and also enhances the ability to absorb nutrients.

Third, adjust the correct posture
Daily standing, sitting or lying posture affects the health of bones and joints, especially the spine. Good posture not only helps children look taller than normal, but also maintains strong bones. Therefore, the child needs to be maintained in the correct posture to create favorable growth conditions.
Fourth, sleep on time, get enough sleep
When the child falls into a deep sleep, the pituitary gland will secrete the most growth hormone during the day. At this time, the body proceeds to eliminate toxins, promoting a strong metabolism, especially more than 90% of bone growth takes place during sleep. Therefore, a good night's sleep is a favorable condition for children to eat well, improve exercise performance and be ready for physical development.
Parents can use the WHO growth chart to track the increase in height and weight of their children over time. If the line to increase the child's height tends to go sideways or down or the height of the child is less than -2 standard deviations, this may be a sign that the child is short, or there is a family member with a height restriction below. 155cm. At this time, parents need to take their children to see a pediatrician to be examined, perform in-depth tests to find the cause of the disease, and offer treatment methods and intervention advice to help improve the height of the child. young.
Currently, at Vinmec International General Hospital, there is a team of Endocrinologists - Pediatricians with many years of experience in examination and treatment who will give the best advice and treatment regimen, ensuring health. comprehensive for baby.

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Note: This article is part of the Vinmec International General Hospital System's Awareness Program on Growth Retardation, with the support of Novo Nordisk