Grow Taller Right Now: The Newspaper Stretch

One of the first techniques I learned which seemed to fit into the "grow taller right now" school, or at least in a gain inches in a reasonable amount of time, was what I now call the newspaper stretch. I believe I ordered it in a mail-order catalog or some such source, and at the time I paid a handsome amount for it. This was my first act of desperation in the desire to add a few inches to my height - sending precious cash away by post, not knowing whether it would even reach its destination or if it did, if the seller would actually send me anything useful.

I did get an envelope soon enough, and it contained a small printed pamphlet with 1 "surefire, guaranteed" method explained in about ten pages. Actually, the method itself took just one or two pages, the rest was fluff.

Here is that height gain method as I remember it: take a stack of newspapers and lay them on the floor, so that when you stand on the stack and reach up to the ceiling, your middle fingertip will just barely touch. I suppose there was a schedule involved, probably once first thing in the morning and once before sleep. I don't remember how long I was supposed to maintain the stretch each time.

The trick was then to remove one single page from the stack of papers every day, so that before very long, the newspapers would be gone and I would be tall enough to reach the ceiling. There were more instructions to the stretches but I've forgotten them now.

Did it work? I never found out. I collected the papers and I did the stretches and filled out the weekly chart so I could follow my height increase - for about two or three weeks. In the first week I believe I measured an extra 1/8th of an inch increase (which encouraged me greatly), but the second week's measurement either gave the same figure or went back to my original. In any case it depressed me greatly, until I quit a few days after.

I didn't return it to get my money back (which I could do within 30 days, but who does this anyway?), and that was that. I have learned a lot more since then, about other methods and shortcuts, and about human physiology as well, stuff that I will share with you.

In the next posts on Grow Taller Right Now I will discuss ways to gaining height that are much, much better than the newspaper method, so stay tuned!