Causes of Stunted Growth

While there is no comprehensive list available for causes of stunted growth, the information below might provide some potential causes to be considered.  While this is not an exhaustive list, some of the causes are debatable, including smoking for which some suggest may cause growth stunting.

• Smoking
• Excess drinking
• Recreational drug use
• Diet imbalance and malnutrition
• Vitamin D toxicity
• Vitamin deficiency
• Lack of exersize
• Hyperthyroidism
• Rickets
• Excessive fruit juice and carbonated drinks
• Steroid use while weightlifting
• Von Gierke Disease
• Dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethene (derived from DDT)

A Non-authoritative List of Potential Causes of Stunted Growth

Tooth decay
http://www.fathersworld.com/fatherhood/articleindex.cfm?section=smile

Too much TV
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/s404860.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/research/2001/10/item20011031134856_1.htm

Some overly restrictive diets, malnutrition, vitamin deficiency,
anorexia
http://www.aegis.com/news/ips/2003/IP030907.html
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/6C03E.htm
http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/2001/2/2_3.html
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20030901/frontpage/89324.shtml
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54b/080.html
http://www.eatingproblems.org/epseffect.html
http://www.fnri.dost.gov.ph/htm/vitaminerals.htm
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020110shelton/020110shelton04.html

Fluoxetine
http://www.rense.com/politics6/proz.htm

Smoking
http://www.teenhealthfx.com/answers/10.html

Von Gierke disease
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000338.htm

Androstenedione (type of steroid hormone)
http://members.aol.com/profchm/andro.html

Excessive vitamin D
http://www.vnv.org.au/Nutrients/VitaminD.htm

In utero nicotine exposure
http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/GM00Winter/GM00Win1.html

Donahue's syndrome
http://www.dcthomson.co.uk/mags/post/hospice/htm_2003/230203_1.htm

Hyperthyroidism
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_677000/677192.stm

Custhing's syndrome
http://www.hgfound.org/frdisorders.html

Weightlifting
http://bodybuilding.about.com/b/a/013562.htm

Smoking
http://www.nutrition.com.sg/atd/atdcalcium.asp

Fruit juice
http://myweb.cableone.net/kkelly/newsletters/spring2001.html

Rickets
http://www.nationaldairycouncil.org/press/alert/newsAlert_604091.asp

Stimulants (both legal and illegal) that cause loss of appetite
http://www.healingwithnutrition.com/adisease/add-adhd/adddrugs.html
http://freespace.virgin.net/dat.worcs/facts.doc

Excessive fruit juice and carbonated drinks
http://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/512282.html

Anabolic steroids
http://www.teens.drugabuse.gov/facts/facts_ster2.asp