Body Composition

After reading the book, I found that after the fourth prenatal month is when growth starts to slow down. Growth then speeds up during adoloscence. At an early adult age growth then stops. Once we become older adults we start shrinking. When the sperm and the egg form the zygote it only measures 0.14 millimeter in diameter. The fetus then continues to grow up to 5000 times longer. The mother then reaches her fourth prenatal month and …

…body goes through a roller coaster of stature changes. We grow fast at times then slow down other times. We have rapid growth spurts. Then stop growing, our stature remains stable. After growing to our adult stature and reaching forty-five plus years we begin to decrease in stature. Although we cannot tell exactly how tall we will be when we reach adult stature, we can predict the normal growth and development process of all humans.