During your online height research, you’ve likely seen it on quite a few website: a “human height calculator” that is “based on scientific research” that is supposed to “accurately predict your target height.”
Don’t buy into this baloney. Not for a minute.
Here’s why… [click to continue…]
Treatments for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) have long come under fire from critics concerned with giving otherwise healthy children daily doses of amphetamines, such is what is contained in the popularly prescribed drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall. While there are many other concerns with the safety and long-term side effects of these prescription drugs, a recent study suggests that Ritalin’s side effects include stunted growth in children, particularly children that begin taking the drug in preschool. [click to continue…]
A few days ago, the 1,000th copy of the Grow Taller Book was downloaded and the big “Sold Out” sign went up on the page, just like I’d promised.
The feedback from Grow Taller Book members has been absolutely phenomenal and I’m infinitely proud that I’m receiving all the praise for the countless hours my team and I have put into it. I’ll be posting some new feedback as soon as possible. There are some i’s to dot and t’s to cross with all of that and I want to make sure that I have full permission to post people’s praises before I start updating the Grow Taller Blog with them. [click to continue…]
Time Magazine ran a particularly compelling article on the subject of Heightism – but not recently. In fact, the article ran October 4, 1971 – nearly 30 years ago.
Heightism, as you know, is a particularly damaging form of prejudice inflicted on persons that are considered to be “short” or even “not tall enough.” The prejudice is most damaging for two reasons: one, because it affects every aspect of the life of the person who is being slighted and two, because heightism is not even thought to be a prejudice at all. In fact, when confronted with their obvious prejudice, the person slighting the height-challenged person will often be shocked that they were being discriminatory at all. [click to continue…]
So-called “height growth clinics” have popped up all over South Korea that claim to help their clients’ children increase height. And their business is booming, to say the least.
Parents are enrolling their children in droves – and paying substantial fees to do so – for their children to go through a battery of height-increasing procedures that range from traditional, safe methods such as proper exercise to more questionable techniques such as acupuncture. [click to continue…]