Our customers report that when it comes to their friends and acquaintances noticing their height, Elevator shoes turn out to be much more discreet than standing on your tippy toes!

If you’re short, maybe you’re cool with it, maybe you’re not. Life can be hard for a lot of short guys, especially if you feel it’s an issue. Women might pat you on the head like you’re a child and men think they can mess with you. Not because they are better or smarter, but because they are taller.

Shortness seems to be some kind of a pardoned prejudice in our society. Racist, sexist, even being overweight - not okay to joke about, but it’s a different story for us short guys. And if you do stick up for yourself, you have ‘issues’. Tall men are praised for having aggression, aggressive short men are “compensating”. Tall men are successful because they capitalised on their potential - successful short men “overcame their inadequacies”.

This is the case to anyone who has no idea. Of course, we know this is not the case most of the time.

However, this is the reality for a lot of short guys. Somewhere down the line, we do in fact develop traits such as aggression, ambition and drive. It is healthy to want to succeed in our domains, but there are also those who are bitter and yearn to prove the masses wrong. Why? Because success is the best revenge.

If you’re one of our customers, you probably realise that we live in a world where people make judgments about you based on things they can spot instantly - such as your height. As human beings, we love to be efficient and using these kinds of short cuts to judge a person’s performance capacity or level of potential is the reality.

Altitude Shoes designs its height increasing shoes with the highest quality leather so that people make positive judgments about you. This makes Altitude Shoes the No. 1 website for elevator shoes that you look taller by discreetly adding inches to your height as well.

More and more scientifically conducted studies are suggesting that taller people have a distinct advantage when it comes to succeeding in their career. That explains why more and more men are going for elevator shoes.

Let’s take a closer look at the findings that research has come up with.

In a recent survey in the US, it was found that a majority of the CEOs working in blue chip companies were tall men, with the average height just less than 6 feet. In another similar survey, it was found that almost 60 percent of the CEOs working in about 200 companies were 6 feet or above, whereas 30 percent were 6′2″ or even taller than that.

It has also been discovered that an extra couple of inches in height translates into extra earnings worth thousands of dollars per year. On an average, it was discovered, an extra inch translates into about $800 more in earnings every year. Hence, if you are 6 feet tall, you could have about $4800 more in yearly earnings than your colleague who stands at 5′6. Over a 30-year career, shorter colleagues will suffer an earnings disadvantage of almost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars when compared to their taller peers.

Separate research has also been conducted on this subject in Australia, which shows that a 6 feet tall employee can get up to a salary 15% higher than a colleague who is 2 inches shorter than him. To put it in perspective, the study highlighted that a person with an additional 12 months of experience can get the same 15 percent higher salary, which shows how valuable those extra 2 inches are.

However, this obviously does not mean that if you are short, you are certain to suffer this disadvantage. In fact, there are many options available today which are very effective in helping people gain a few inches of height. For example, you can wear elevator shoes, which can easily and instantly make you look taller.

Designed with cleverly concealed foam or soft rubber insoles that rest snugly within the shoe, elevator shoes add some much needed inches to the wearer. Men elevator shoes are also durable, stylish and comfortable, and they can be worn on a regular basis without others knowing the secret behind the increase in your height.

The impact that men elevator shoes will have on the way others treat you will not only enhance your confidence but will make sure that you never face the disadvantages that short men face in their profession.

Here at Altitude Shoes, we manufacture and deliver the highest quality leather footwear to ensure that your elevator shoes bring you the greatest success in your social, dating and professional life.

As you may have read in our last article, genetic factors can determine 60 to possibly 80 percent of the difference in height between people, the rest can be attributed to environmental effects, nutrition in particular. Today, we’re going to focus on these factors since we can make them work in our favour.

Our adult height is determined by physiology, genetics and hormones.

Short of taking certain drugs with adverse side effects, there isn’t much we can do about these.

However, there are variables we DO have some control over including sleep, nutrition and doing our best to avoid alcohol and other harmful substances.

Sleep

Human growth hormone is released during sleep. In men, 60% to 70% of daily human growth hormone secretion occurs during early sleep which is typically when the deepest sleep cycles occur, thus sleep has a profound effect on growth and physical well being.

Alcohol, smoking and drugs

It’s tempting to indulge in one or more of these when we’re in party mode, but it’s also important to consider the consequences as the human body doesn’t take too kindly towards these growth poisons.

Nutrition

Nutrition is an incredibly complex topic so we will just cover the basics here.

Food is our body’s fuel. It is what gives us the energy to move and the materials to repair and rebuild our body’s structures such as hair, skin, nails and muscles. There is a HUGE variety of foods that can be consumed in your diet, and the more you try to include in your diet, the better. This is especially the case for fruits and vegetables.

Foods you should be getting more of:

·         Lean beef, chicken, tukey and pork - Perfectly engineered to build and repair human muscle and other tissues involved with growth.

·         Fish and fish oil - Same as above, but you also get the benefit of the healthy fats found in fish.

·         Nuts (as well as olive oil and avocado) - High in monounsaturated fat which is important for testosterone

·         Fruits and vegetables - Packed with fibre, vitamins and minerals. These keep you healthy, fight off cancer and can help you to look younger too

·         Whole grains and beans - Excellent low GI, high fibre source of carbohydrates

·         Low fat dairy - Essential for bone strength

And of course, the simplest and most effective way to naturally appear taller instantly is to wear Altitude Shoes: the No.1 Height shoes manufacturer. Altitude Shoes delivers Elevator Shoes internationally and is recognised for producing super high quality footwear that looks as good as it feels.

According to scientific research done by Molecular biologist Chao-Qiang Lai of Tufts University, genetics can determine up to 80 percent of an individual’s height, whereas 20 to 40 percent can be attributed to environmental factors; nutrition in particular.

This is a popular topic, and thus many studies have estimated the heritability of human height. Often, these analyses determine heritability by estimating the extent of similarity between relatives.

However, taking into account the variables of environment, genetic factors and ethnic populations, height heritability can fluctuate from one society to another, and even from men to women.

The Heritability concept lets us explore the role genetics play in an individual’s height and the direct influence that genes have on this physical trait. Heritability can also be used to predict a person’s height if the height of both parents is known. Of course, these predictions only reflect the mean estimated height for the person and involve a margin of error, thus the actual height may be different.

From this information, we find that the environment, and factors such as nutrition,  can only change a few centimetres, approximately, for a given offspring’s height. Does that mean that no matter what happens in the child’s environment, the height can never change more than this? Not necessarily, because unique remedies and strategies and nutritional supplements such as protein, calcium and specific growth- related vitamins increase the height further. The most important nutrient for final height is protein in childhood. Minerals such as calcium, and vitamins A and D also influence height. Knowing this, we can understand why malnutrition in childhood is detrimental to height. Thus, adequate nutrition before puberty is crucial for obtaining the maximum height that one’s genetics and environment allow.

In developed countries, nutrition for childhood development is strong, which maximizes the genetic potential for height assuming no mutations. Thus, the overall heritability estimates tend to be higher, i.e., closer to the 80 percent figure mentioned at the beginning of the article. In contrast, in developing countries, nutrition deficits lead to a lower heritability.

So if you’ve drawn the short straw when it comes to your height, Altitude Shoes can add inches to your height instantly with no one ever knowing if you are wearing height shoes, or if you have been blessed with ideal genetics and an environment conducive to height!

Research shows that Altitude Shoes look AND feel better than wooden stools, and they also last longer!

Rumour has it that the short French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has banned tall bodyguards from protecting him, even though they have an advantage in spotting threats in a large crowd. You can read the full artice here

The newspaper ‘Le Parisien’ was told that hiring “supermen” served no purpose since large bodyguards were more unlikely to be challenged.

Like most short men, President Sarkozy is sensitive about his height as he stands at approximately 5‘5″ - Dustin Hoffman and Phil Collins are among many other famous individuals who stood at around the 5’5″ mark.

His wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is 5’10″ and for men who are sensitive about their height, the only thing worse than being short is having your partner be taller than you.

Interestingly, the President has been suspected to wear height shoes to add those crucial inches to his height in order to increase his confidence and charisma when addressing other world leaders and the French population. Although if he doesn’t wear height shoes, he certainly should! Height shoes are the best solution for increasing your height naturally, and it doesn’t matter if you are a businessman, doctor, or the President. This explains why Altitude Shoes was recommended in the press as an excellent choice for successful people.

The article states that President Sarkozy has apparently organised for a small number of industrial employees to appear beside him for an extraordinary reason - because they are shorter than him, hence, standing next to them would make the President appear taller. Once this was known to the media, journalists, artists and cartoonists were given the rope to ridicule Mr Sarkozy even more than they did previously.

At Altitude Shoes, we understand that you want discreet inches added to your height. Rest assured, our elevator shoes look like standard, high quality stylish footwear thanks to our magic element - the hidden sole.

We know that much of our height can be attributed to genetics, but what about geography? Let’s take a look at some averages of height numbers around the world:

In Latin America, males measured an average height of 167cm and females scored 156cm. Argentina had the tallest subjects, while Peru had the shortest of the sample nations.

In Africa, males were approximately 168cm tall on average and females were 158cm. The tallest nation was Cameroon and the shortest numbers came from Nigeria.

European males were 179cm on average, while females were 166cm. Netherlands had the tallest men at a height of 184cm, and the tallest women who measured 168cm on average.

In Asia, males were an average of 166cm tall, and females scored an average of 155cm. China and South Korea claimed the tallest subjects with males of both countries standing at 173cm and females being 163cm and 15cm tall respectively.

The English- speaking nations of Australia, North America, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom all had identical results. The males were an average of 177cm tall, and the females were 164cm tall. The US and Canada had the tallest and shortest subjects respectively, which only differed by an inch or two.

It’s no wonder that we have such a wide array of customers… there are short people in every country. But interestingly enough, we have not seen more Asian customers than white customers or more Latin American clients than European.

Nonetheless, when we compare these statistics with our client base, it explains a lot! Men from all over the world log onto our site every day to purchase height increasing shoes, improving their lives and themselves.