How do you get shorter in height?
The advice given below to stop eating anything with calcium is very unhealthy advice. Your teeth and bones need calcium to be healthy. You can develop a calcium deficiency and lose all your teeth and start getting broken bones frequently if you stop eating foods containing calcium. Calcium is also very important to help your heart to contract. If you quit eating any calcium you may have a heart attack, even if you are a child. It is MUCH safer to just accept your height.
1. stop drinking or eating anything with CALCIUM
2. lift weights above the head and do squats and other exersises on a daily basis
3. Do not eat fast food, red meat, or anything that is genetically modified ... eat more fish and seafood
4. drink A LOT of soda and drinks with caffiene, ( drink tons of Nestea, Diet coke, tea, coffee, energy drinks
5. exerise A LOT and play various sports
6. still stand up straight or you will devolop a hunch in your back like me :(
7. Use bean bag weights (iunno what its called) with a strap attached to your ankles, walk around and exerise in them,, try treadmillin' with them on,, but don't let them fall off !
I'm 6 feet tall. i have shrunk 4 inches. i skinny though. hate it. every1 in the family is 5'4 on average. i feel like a giant... i have grown 12 inches since grade 8, i am now in grade 11, age : 17... both my parents are short. my mom 4'9 and my dad is 5'6. i feel that the reason for my height is drinking too much milk, and eating too much fast food and red meat. If you stay off this at a younger age than 17 and you know that you dont want to be as tall as me, than follow these 7 rules... they really work but make sure that you keep your posture....
Yea um i wanted too know how long do you have to do this for and how much weight do you need to use to do squats and other weight lifting exercises?
1. stop drinking or eating anything with CALCIUM
2. lift weights above the head and do squats and other exersises on a daily basis
3. Do not eat fast food, red meat, or anything that is genetically modified ... eat more fish and seafood
4. drink A LOT of soda and drinks with caffiene, ( drink tons of Nestea, Diet coke, tea, coffee, energy drinks
5. exerise A LOT and play various sports
6. still stand up straight or you will devolop a hunch in your back like me :(
7. Use bean bag weights (iunno what its called) with a strap attached to your ankles, walk around and exerise in them,, try treadmillin' with them on,, but don't let them fall off !
I'm 6 feet tall. i have shrunk 4 inches. i skinny though. hate it. every1 in the family is 5'4 on average. i feel like a giant... i have grown 12 inches since grade 8, i am now in grade 11, age : 17... both my parents are short. my mom 4'9 and my dad is 5'6. i feel that the reason for my height is drinking too much milk, and eating too much fast food and red meat. If you stay off this at a younger age than 17 and you know that you dont want to be as tall as me, than follow these 7 rules... they really work but make sure that you keep your posture....
Yea um i wanted too know how long do you have to do this for and how much weight do you need to use to do squats and other weight lifting exercises?
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Height is determined by genetics, so whatever you might try will not make you shorter to any noticeable degree. All you can really do is wear shoes with very low heals or …slouch your shoulders, which is not healthy and makes you look bad. Wearing certain clothing can make you appear shorter, like wearing horizontal stripes instead of vertical stripes. (MORE)
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Genetics can make you shorter, for one. If your family is on the shorter side, you will likely be as well. Poor nutrition can stunt growth, too.
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How could you get shorter for height?
Drink green tea, alot! like 5 cups every day! And try to not sleep that much, or sit when you are sleeping! :D (my english are bad...)
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How do you get shorter or what clothes make you look shorter?
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Does squatting get you shorter?
Well If im done working out after squatting.. im like 2 CM shorter.. but its just for the day. XD
