A recent study on both tall and short people has discovered that your height can have a major impact on your self-esteem as well as your physical and mental health. The study has shown that short people are more likely to have problems with their physical and mental health than someone of average height. And tall people have their own set of problems too.

These problems could get worse as our current evolutionary pattern dictates that humans are getting taller and taller. Thanks to an increase in food supply in the last hundred years the average height of a woman has grown from 5ft 1in to 5ft 4in while men have grown from 5ft 3in to 5ft 9in.

The Fall of The Tall

If you’re a woman above the height of 5ft 8in or a man above 6ft then you are susceptible to the following conditions:

Cancer

Dr. Mike Weedon has conducted a study that concluded that tall people are more likely to suffer from prostate, bladder and lung cancer. Tall women also have a higher risk of breast cancer, with the chance of contracting breast cancer increasing by seven percent with each additional 5cm of height.

Fight The Height: Eat plenty of foods containing antitoxins such as tomatoes, sprouts, green leafy vegetables, berries and wholegrain.

Poor Posture and Back Problems

Tall people often have poor posture due to stooping when talking to people. They stoop so they are seen as “level” with the person they are talking to. Beds and seating are often inadequate for the needs of tall people and can cause slipped discs due to the body trying to re-adjust itself to the position.

Fight The Height: The best way to combat back problems is with light exercising and stretching focusing on the body’s core. Try taking up yoga or Pilates at a local class.

Obesity

An increase in height often means an increase in calorie consumption, and if these calories aren’t burnt off with regular exercise, the lbs with start piling on. Obesity can, in turn, lead to problems such as heart disease and diabetes.

Fight The Height: Cut back on the amount of fatty foods you eat and get moving! Just 30 minutes a day is enough so take your dog for a walk, go for a swim or cycle to work. One thing I recommend is whenever you get a call on your cell phone answer it and pace around as you talk. This burns 100 calories in 30 minutes as opposed to the 30 calories you’d burn staying sat down.

Short Order

A woman below 5ft 2in or a man below 5ft 7in is considered to be short. If you fit that profile then you could be susceptible to the following conditions:

Depression

Shorter people tend to lack confidence and self-esteem more than those of average height. This is often because they feel like they are “below” those taller than them.

Fight The Height: Unfortunately you can’t choose to grow a few more inches in adult life but you can buy a pair of high heeled shoes or “lifts”. Lifts fit in the heel of your shoe and can boost your height by up to 2.5 inches.

Stroke

A direct link between a person’s height and their risk of suffering a stroke has been reported. A man under 5ft 3in has twice the likelihood of having a haemorrhagic stroke while a woman under 5ft has a 30% higher chance of suffering a stroke.

Fight The Height: High blood pressure is the highest factor for strokes. If you have high blood pressure you can lower it by eating less salt, quitting smoking, drinking less alcohol and getting regular exercise. Meditation and hypnosis both lower stress levels which is a great help in keeping blood pressure regular.

Low IQ

Research suggests that shorter people earn less than their taller counterparts and this isn’t a height prejudice issue. Tall people actually have higher IQ’s, possibly due to superior nutrition during pregnancy.

Fight The Height: Luckily there are many ways to boost your brain power. Try completing a crossword or sudoku grid once in a while or, in this increasingly computerized age, Nintendo Brain Train might suit you more. Omega3 from oily fish can help increase brain power.

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Here is a great new weight loss treatment that can help even the biggest people lose weight rapidly. As a clinical hypnotherapist, I have seen more success with this therapy than any other. Let me tell you all about it…

This innovative new hypnotherapy treatment for weight loss is called Gastric Band Hypnotherapy.

In my experience, patients experience a massive reduction in their appetite, and typically lose somewhere between 2-4 pounds per week. This may not sound like much, but over 8 weeks this comes to between 16 and 32 pounds. This is enough to transform most peoples’ physiques in just 8 weeks. You can of course keep losing weight for much longer.

Gastric band hypnotherapy helps people lose weight by convincing their subconscious minds that they have undergone gastric band surgery. The mind thinks and acts like a gastric band has been fitted. You then experience a much reduced appetite, which leads to rapid weight loss.

Gastric band surgery typically takes 3 sessions. The idea is that they will try to recreate the real surgery as closely as possible, which also takes 3 sessions. In your mind you will walk the corridors of a clinic. Meet the doctors and nurses, look around the building, and experience the various procedures. You will wake up like you have just woken up from a surgical procedure. This leads to the subconscious mind to believe that this has really happened.

Advantages over surgery

Gastric band hypnosis has several advantages over surgery. Here are just a few of them…

1. It is far cheaper. Surgery costs around $10,000, whereas hypnotherapy is usually around 10 times cheaper.

2. There are no scars with the hypnosis treatment.

3. No pain, discomfort or recovery time off work. You don’t need to miss a single day at work with gastric band hypnosis.

Advantages over “live” hypnotherapy

HypnoBusters now offers gastric band hypnotherapy in mp3 format. This gives you even more advantages over “live” hypnosis sessions. Here are some of them…

1. Mp3s can be supplied around 10 times less than it would cost to hire a hypnotherapist.

2. You don’t need to book an appointment and travel to visit a clinical hypnotherapist. You can download the sessions immediately to your PC and listen to them in the comfort and privacy of your home.

3. Your sessions can be listened to as many times as you wish in order to strengthen the effects.

If you have tried all the fad diets and they have not worked for you, then gastric band hypnotherapy could be the one that finally cracks it. It doesn’t promise miracle weight loss. What it does promise is a reduction in your appetite, which then leads to rapid weight loss.

UPDATE 20/08/2014 Feedback has shown that Gastric Band Hypnotherapy has been very effective for helping people shed large amounts of weight permanently. Here are some examples below. Please click here to learn more about my Gastric Band Hypnosis MP3