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