How much do you think this affected my growth?

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Sweden, he's not 5'9, he's actually 5'10.

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Thanks for the replies. I will reply to 2 of them for the time being.

Quote from: Taller on August 26, 2014, 01:27:22 AMAbout how tall were you at age 12?

How much height did you gain from ages 12-15?

How much height did you gain from ages 15-18?

How much height did you gain after age 18?

If you answer these questions, we can have a better idea of if your growth pattern was abnormal and thus make an educated guess as to whether or not you stunted your growth.

I can't say for sure what my height was at some of those ages.

I'm dead on 5'10 measured first thing in the morning. I've gained very little since 18 - 1cm at most. At 13, I was still very short (one of the shortest in my class). My growth spurt happened between late 13 and early 16. First bit of pubic hair I noticed at late 13, and first time I had to shave was just after my 17th birthday (but didn't have to shave again for another 2 months). I can't say for certain what height I was at those ages. At 12, I was still several inches shorter than my mum who is 5'6, so maybe around 5'1-5'3?

Quote from: KiloKAHN on August 26, 2014, 02:27:34 AMYour height would only be affected if you were severely malnourished on a third world country level. Not having breakfast wouldn't bring you to that point.

Yeah but constantly not having breakfast and just having 2 quite small sized meals a day has got to have an impact?

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No, that didn't stunt your growth. Your growth can only be stunned if you were hungry 24/7 and didn't have anything to eat. You ate as much as your body needed.

And btw 5'10 is a good height, all the problems (if you have any?) you are having right now won't disappear when you are taller. You are just searching for an excuse like 99% of the people on this forum who are around average height.

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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!

QuoteThe most important non-genetic factors affecting growth and adult body height are nutrition and diseases. Short stature is associated with poorer education and lower social position in adulthood. This is mainly due to family background, but other environmental factors in childhood also contribute to this association. Body height is a good indicator of childhood living conditions, not only in developing countries but also in modern Western societies. Future studies combining different scientific traditions in auxology are needed to create a more holistic view of body height.

QuoteThe literature on human growth has established that adult height is determined by cumulative net nutrition over the growing period, where net nutrition is the difference between the intake of nutrition (food) and the claims on it through activity and disease (see Bogin 2001; Evelyth and Tanner 1990; or Silventoinen 2003)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2809930/

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Quote from: exclide on August 27, 2014, 01:40:05 PMOf 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/

Its possible to be well fed and still end up short. On the other hand, people with bad nutrition (well fed, not starving) can be taller. Height is also dependent on luck. We can eat healthy, sleep well, and excercise, but the rest is up to our body. We can't order our body to grow so cross your fingers. People need to stop assuming that all short guys had   nutrition.

I had good nutrition, slept well, was active, had little stress, and I'm only 5'7. Lots of kids who smoked and did pot outgrew me.

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The height potential you lost is less compared to if you were severly malnourished.

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Quote from: exclide on August 27, 2014, 01:40:05 PMOf 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/

So I guess that means nearly every person in the world stunted his growth, because no one has a 100% perfect upbringing. How many people never get sick once in their entire childhood and youth? How many never suffer stress once?

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Quote from: IwannaBeTaller on August 30, 2014, 09:00:25 AMevery person in the world stunted his growth

Did I say that? Is affects your growth to some extent, it doesn't stunt it. And the ones that eat good, don't get sick too much and have less stress get to their maximum potential.

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The height loss would be very, very minimal anyway. Were talking a couple of millimeters height loss, maybe three millimeters at most, not much to be overly concerned about.

But yes, the sickness, the stress, and the malnouishment would have to be to the extremes.

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Quote from: galaxy1 on August 30, 2014, 11:28:13 AMThe height loss would be very, very minimal anyway. Were talking a couple of millimeters height loss, maybe three millimeters at most, not much to be overly concerned about.

But yes, the sickness, the stress, and the malnouishment would have to be to the extremes.

Now you're just talking out of your ass.

Read the study I posted, your height may vary from 25 percentile to 75 depending on your nutrition.