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Can vitamins and minerals help me to become leaner and / or taller?
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No: Proper nutrition & exercise can make you leaner. But you'll need open growth plates if you want to grow taller. Once you complete puberty and your growth plates have closed, you're stuck at that particular height (although i suppose you could lose height via vertebral compression fractures).
Answered 8/9/2012
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