You may want your child not to be distressed by the height and to grow up shapely after all while thinking it is a matter of no importance to be tall. Is it not the parents’ intention to think so?

You will be happy that son becomes very tall and shapely and a daughter has a figure like a model with long legs.

Your child will grow in height during periods of growth. Do you know it is not the thing that only the periods of growth is important?

The foods from childhood affect the period of growth. Many children do not have breakfast in particular these days. Since it is the energy source to grow the brain and body, you should make your children attend school after feeding something to eat every morning.

Today I will tell about 9 ingredients useful for getting taller. Please refer to them as the menu of breakfast from tomorrow.

9 ingredients of breakfast for a child to get taller

Take in calcium with a dairy product

Calcium is just what we can say something for getting taller. You may often hear the words that you should take in calcium to build a big-boned body. However why is calcium good? It is related to the structure of the bone.

In the first place do you know how many bones there are in a human body? The answer is 206 bones. And it is said that the bones which are involved in the growth are approximately 88 in them. Because the nourishments composed mostly of calcium absorb at the both ends of the bone, a bone grows up and the height increases, too.

However, you may intend to take in calcium a lot, but the nutrition does not extend to all the details of your body because of poor absorption from the bowels. Since calcium begins to leak out bones when that of the whole body runs short, many people chronically have lack of calcium in the status quo.

Therefore the milk, cheese, and yogurt that you can take in efficiently for breakfast are recommended because it is very important to take in calcium for the purpose of growing up in any case.

Take in protein with a soybean product

The protein becomes the basis of making bones and is the important nutrient promoting the secretion of the growth hormone. The protein is protein in English, and the etymology is “the most important thing” in Greek.

The cells that are beyond number in the human body are made from protein instead of merely making bones. Also muscle, blood, skin or oxygen is the same as cell. You can understand well that it is an indispensable important nutrient on building of human body.

What you can take in protein most efficiently from is chicken tenderloin. Since it is high-protein and low-calorie, it is an ingredient introduced well for the diet. However, it may be slightly difficult if a child can eat it heartily every morning.

Although it is a way to put the boiled chicken tenderloin on the salad, the easiest way, what we can say, is a soybean product. Since soybean products are used for everything in Japanese foods, it is easy to take it in very much. It is delightful for us that natto, miso soup or tofu is easy to cook.

Take in zinc with natto

In fact, it is zinc that assumes a considerably important role as a headliner for getting taller.In the actually performed experiments in the past, the mouse which grew up without being given zinc seemed to get old remaining small.

It is said that zinc is a nutrient directly related to the growth of the bone, it is indispensable for the composition of protein and the genes causing the growth hormone. Zinc is the nutrient which is included in an oyster or an eel a lot, but is not the ingredient which you can eat frequently. Then the proper food is natto. It includes a lot of zinc, and is the ingredient which it is easy to regularly ingest because it is cheap and is popular among children.

Take in magnesium with dried whitebait

There are 4 major nutrients for getting taller. The three of them are calcium, protein, and zinc already introduced above. What is the last one? The answer is “magnesium.”

When magnesium runs short, calcium is steadily excreted and calcium will run short, too. The dried whitebait are recommended because it includes not only a lot of magnesium but a lot of nutrients promoting growth such as protein, calcium, vitamin D and so on.

Magnesium is included a lot not only in dried whitebait but in the nuts such as almonds or peanuts and the brown rice. Therefore if you are conscious of painting peanut butter on bread or eating brown rice instead of white rice, it is easy to ingest the nutrient for breakfast. Please keep it in mind by all means.

Take in iron with sesame

There are very many children who have an iron deficiency. Although the exercise is indispensable for physical growth, their bodies become easy to be tired and come to have no appetite. It is far from the exercise.

The lack of iron becomes the problem as one of the big causes to disturb growth. It makes the number of red blood cells in the blood decrease and makes the ability to carry oxygen to the body decrease.

Adult anemia is also a problem, but the lack of iron is really a big problem for a child because he needs a lot of blood for building his physical body. Speaking of iron, we hear that the dark red flesh of a lever or a fish is good, but children seem to increasingly keep a distance from it since it have a strange taste.

Then it is sesame to be easy to take in iron.

Since ground sesame possesses a pleasing flavor and is lush, it becomes easy to eat by sprinkling to the vegetables, and you place it daily on a table and can add it on various dishes.

Take in vitamin K with seaweed

Even if I say vitamin K, it may be the nutrient that you are not familiar with. In fact, vitamin K is the nutrient which has an affect on the growth of the bone materially. I have already told above “Because the nourishments composed mostly of calcium absorb at the both ends of the bone, a bone grows up.”

It is the vitamin K that is used for calcium to absorb a bone. Since it is the nutrient which is hard to run short when we become an adult, it is the thing which does not become such a subject but it is apt to lack in a child and relates to the growth.

When the seaweed containing lots of vitamin K will be put in miso soups or be added to salads, you can ingest it simply. In addition, it is convenient for you to use it immediately because it is easy to always have it ready as dried foods.

Take in vitamin D with a fish

Vitamin D is the nutrient to relate calcium to the growth of the bone with vitamin K. The vitamins help the synthesis of protein, and vitamin D is particularly an indispensable presence among them.

In addition, the lack of vitamin D is considered as a very important issue in late years, and it is said that it closely relates to bone malformation and impaired bone growth. Since vitamin D is the abundant nutrient in a fish, it is the ingredient which you should usually eat it. And it is said that you need to be also exposed moderate ultraviolet rays to make vitamin D.

Although many mothers take full protection measures from ultraviolet rays for their children since we recently tend to avoid them, moderate sunbathing is very important to their physical growth. It is essential for growth to eat a fish and play vigorously outside.

Take in vitamin C with vegetables

Have you not heard that you cannot get taller if you smoke in youth? It does not seem to be completely an urban legend because smoking uses vitamin C in large amounts.

In other words, vitamin C is need for physical growth. In addition, you may want to ingest vitamin C a lot because it has a supporting role to make collagen. But unfortunately it is weak against heating and you cannot take it in the body as a nutrient if you do not eat foods raw.

Therefore it becomes necessary to eat fresh vegetables as salad and a lot of fruits.

Take in minerals with mineral water

Why does a Japanese have is an inferiority complex about stature? It is strange that the stature of Japanese is lower compared to Europeans and Americans though we eat a lot of soybean products and vegetables. It is water that is considered as one of the reasons.
The numerical value that expressed the quantity of calcium and magnesium eluted in water is called the “hardness (water hardness).” Most of the water in Japan are the soft water which is low in the hardness, the hard water is common in Europe. And the mineral water is consumed on a daily basis in the country where they cannot drink tap water.

Since the water in Japan which contains less mineral and you are familiar with soft water from a young age, it is said that you do not take in enough mineral in Japan than in the foreign countries. Since you can buy a lot of kinds of mineral water in supermarkets and convenience stores, please try to drink mineral water on this occasion.

How about things mentioned above?

Do you understand how balanced diet promotes the growth in a child? It is difficult for that you make your child stuff many foods into his mouth in the busy morning and it does not last long to make him unwillingly eat the ingredients he does not like.

Nonetheless, if you neglect the contents of foods, it will affect the growth of child. Since it is the matter that you must do every day, it is really difficult. You want your child to thrive and want him to become slender and tall. It is very troublesome to think about a daily menu, but please think about the body as hard as you can and watch closely the growth of your child while having meals happily.

Summary

9 ingredients of breakfast for a child to get taller

・ Take in calcium with a dairy product
・ Take in protein with a soybean product
・ Take in zinc with natto
・ Take in magnesium with dried whitebait
・ Take in iron with sesame
・ Take in vitamin K with seaweed
・ Take in vitamin D with a fish
・ Take in vitamin C with vegetables
・ Take in minerals with mineral water