Want to grow taller? Eat lots of dairy products
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By David Liu and editing by Aimee Keenan Green
Want to grow taller and avoid diseases? Eat lots of dairy products.
Key T.J. of Oxford University just published an article in the May 3, 2011 issue of the Proceedings of Nutrition Society that suggests men and women with high intakes of dairy protein had higher circulating IGF-1
Insulin-like-growth factors play a role in diseases like cancer and diabetes, according to Wikipedia. To say the least, it has been found that IGF-1 stimulates growth of prostate and breast cancer cells.
This year, Dr. Angelique E. Richardson reported in her dissertation that "IGF2 promotes activation of estrogen receptor in basal-like breast cancer cells."
Dr. Richardson said although IGF2 plays a physiological role in the growth and differentiation of normal breast, it regulates proliferation and cancer progression after initiated by estrogen, progesterone and prolactin.
Previously another study in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found peri-adolescent children aged 10 to 11 who ate lots of dairy products were taller than those who ate little dairy products.
Dedoussis GV and colleagues from Harokopio University in Athens, Greece screened 795 peri-adolescent children aged 10 to 11 years of age with 424 female for the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) rs680 polymorphism and analysed interactive effect of the gene variation and diet on the height of the children.
The researchers found those with the common homozygous allele (GG) were 0.8 centimeter taller than those with the A allele after adjustment for age, sex and dairy intake.
There was a positive association between dairy product intake and height in children with the A-allele. A four-serving increase in dairy consumption was correlated with a 0.4 cm increase in height.
Among children with the A-allele, those who had high intake of dairy products were 1.4 cm taller than their peers with low intake.
The researchers concluded, in the March 2010 publishing, eating dairy products is associated with increased height.
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