Coffee Makes You Short? (between, kids, people, time)

[napy666]

Is it true that drinking coffee makes you short? I only have 1 cup of coffee maybe once per day if not every other day or maybe even once in a while and every time I do my mom comes in bugging in how me drinking coffee is just going to make me shorter than what I am right now, standing at 4'11.

[NJBest]

No one knows. There is no peer reviewed and published research showing a link between being short and drinking coffee.

[grmi66]

I'm 6'3" and drink a lot of coffee. Don't think it is an issue.

[chiroptera]

Originally Posted by napy666

Is it true that drinking coffee makes you short? I only have 1 cup of coffee maybe once per day if not every other day or maybe even once in a while and every time I do my mom comes in bugging in how me drinking coffee is just going to make me shorter than what I am right now, standing at 4'11.

You provided no link or reference.
It is generally not smart to believe every thing you read online. Hint: Sometimes stuff people say online is not true. Sometimes stuff people's mothers say isn't true either. (Shocking, I know.)

My mother used to tell me if I unbuttoned my bellybutton, my butt would fall off. '
I didn't believe her at five years old, and 50 years later, I still don't!

[TabulaRasa]

5'10" female, been drinking coffee since I was about 11 or 12, if not earlier.

[Dennis P]

I was told this, too. I never really believed it. I've never seen any studies done on it.

[mainebrokerman]

i think many parents said this yrs ago- for two reasons,,,coffee was an adult drink,,,not for kids..
i only knew of one kid growing up that drank coffee, and he was hyper,,couldnt sit still in school

[brokencrayola]

If you're an adult and have finished puberty then you won't be growing any taller anyway, coffee or not. It certainly isn't going to shrink you.

[SATX56]

I believe "stunts your growth" was the favorite saying.... ( at 4' 11" you shouldn't risk it!)

[Audioque]

I highly doubt it. The tallest countries in the world (mostly Scandinavians countries) also happen to be countries with the highest coffee consumption. Not suggesting any causation here.