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[Wannabegiant]

Sure. You can measure your current height 100% accurate. Measuring how much of your growth you did or didn't reach is impossible.

You would only get a measurement from that moment, the next time you measure you might get a slightly different result, even if it only differs by less than a mm.

See my point?

Its impossible the same way to know for sure how much of your height was affected but based on the existing knowledge of your lifestyle and those medical studies its very logical to assume that i my growth would have been more affected compared to someone who had an easy life and ate well etc.

[tapemeasure]

Of course it did have impact, you don't grow just by drinking water. And you don't need to be malnourished to lose some of your height potential. Good nutrition equals more height - this is an established scientific fact. And it's not the only factor that can influence your adult height, there's also things called 'stress' and 'disease', if you had too much of these in your childhood, well bad news then!
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809930/

Speaking of stress, I do get stressed more than most people, in my opinion. I'm generally not a relaxed person. Even little things when I was younger, like getting my books out of my locker for class or getting ready in the morning, probably caused me way more stress than most people. I'm quite a shy person, so even being around people at school caused me stress. Since 17 years old in particular, I've had occurrences of quite bad stress in my life which have lasted a number of months at a time.

Is that what you mean for stress?

[IwannaBeTaller]

You would only get a measurement from that moment, the next time you measure you might get a slightly different result, even if it only differs by less than a mm.

See my point?

Its impossible the same way to know for sure how much of your height was affected but based on the existing knowledge of your lifestyle and those medical studies its very logical to assume that i my growth would have been more affected compared to someone who had an easy life and ate well etc.

Yes, that's logical to assume (note: assume), but the question is how much was it affected? It's impossible to know because you don't know your true "genetic height". There are also many NBA players who had traumatic childhoods, lived in broken homes with alcoholics and drug abusers, and they still became madly tall. So I guess what you're trying to tell me is that even Dennis Rodman stunted his growth and should've become 6'8 instead of 6'7.

By the way, the linked study says that tall people live longer. A different study actually says the opposite:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10823649/Shorter-men-live-longer-scientists-find.html

[Overdozer]

I don't understand why are you trying to argue with something as obvious and as widely accepted by science. What are you even opposing this with, besides speculation? Do you have just any data, facts, studies? If you do a google search containing this: 'height growth nutrition site:ncbi.nlm.nih.gov', you'd find a lot of data to support the importance of nutrition in determining final height. Just a few...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20384180 - [Differences in nutrition manners among short-statured and tall-statured girls and boys from Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3005655/ - Nutrition plays a fundamental role in determining the growth of individuals.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17181901 - The growth and development of the human skeleton requires an adequate supply of many different nutritional factors. Classical nutrient deficiencies are associated with stunting (e.g. energy, protein, Zn), rickets (e.g. vitamin D) and other bone abnormalities (e.g. Cu, Zn, vitamin C).


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21492979 - lol wtf

[IwannaBeTaller]

I don't understand why are you trying to argue with something as obvious and as widely accepted by science. What are you even opposing this with, besides speculation? Do you have just any data, facts, studies? If you do a google search containing this: 'height growth nutrition site:ncbi.nlm.nih.gov', you'd find a lot of data to support the importance of nutrition in determining final height. Just a few...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20384180 - [Differences in nutrition manners among short-statured and tall-statured girls and boys from Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3005655/ - Nutrition plays a fundamental role in determining the growth of individuals.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17181901 - The growth and development of the human skeleton requires an adequate supply of many different nutritional factors. Classical nutrient deficiencies are associated with stunting (e.g. energy, protein, Zn), rickets (e.g. vitamin D) and other bone abnormalities (e.g. Cu, Zn, vitamin C).


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21492979 - lol wtf

I'm not arguing against it, I'm saying there's no way of knowing how much it affected someone.

[Moubgf]

Lets say you ate bad 4 times a week and got needed meals only 3 times a week. That means that you loose 4 days each week hell yeah you lost 1-2 inch because you did not maximize your height potential.