Vegetarian Kids and Height

Do kids need meat to grow tall? Here are some graphs for parents to decide.Vegetarian parents, especially from India, living in the Western world, do wonder if their kids are missing out on something by not eating meat. A perfect proxy of complete nutrition is height. Here are some graphs for parents to decide. Height vs Vegetarianism in India The two graphs below show that the tallest male heights in India have very little correlation with meat consumption. The tallest males, statistically, are in Punjab (67% vegetarian), J&K (31% vegetarian), Kerala (3% vegetarian), and Haryana (70% vegetarian). In fact, some of the highest meat-consuming states, like Andhra and Bengal, are the shortest. And that is likely due to a lack of prosperity leading to malnutrition. Once the people are prosperous enough (e.g., J&K, Kerala, Haryana, and Punjab) and have solved malnutrition, the meat seems to offer very little in terms of height gain. Now, of course, there are 100s of health parameters, but…