Can obesity reduce height?

Can obesity reduce height?

Does body weight affect height? A 2011 study suggests that there is “no association between adult height and weight status.”

Does obesity affect growth?

Obese children are usually taller for their age but also fatter and mature faster, but they do not tend to attain taller height as adults since excess adiposity during early childhood has an influence on the process of growth and puberty.

Why are obese people taller?

Obesity hormones indeed do affect growth. It has been shown that tall and obese children exhibit variation in the ghrelin gene [30], and leptin was shown to stimulate growth even in the presence of caloric restriction [31].

Do skinnier people look taller?

We similarly found that being thin makes you look taller, although this effect was less pronounced.