If you are under 24 years of age, there is a good chance that if you eat a healthy diet, sleep regularly for 6-8 hours in a day, and exercise, you will grow taller naturally. If you are older, then it is more difficult, but not impossible to add to your height.

First of all you should have a diet that contains calcium, which is essential for healthy bone growth. Such foods are milk, yoghurt, cheese, broccoli and other leafy greens, turnips, oily fish such as sardines and salmon, rhubarb, almonds and sesame seeds, to name but a few.

Secondly you should ensure that you have a regular sleep pattern and sleep for between 6 and 8 hours a day. When you sleep growth hormones are released in the body and you can grow naturally.

Stretching exercises which you can do at home as part of an exercise program will cost nothing, but help you gain height.

If you want to know how to get taller in a day then your best bet is to change the way you dress while you are waiting to gain inches. If you wear baggy clothes and turtlenecks as well as having long hair, in combination or even separately these things will make you look even shorter. You can add inches to your height in just one day by buying shoes that will add to your height. These can be expensive, but they guarantee you will look taller.

You might need to change you whole wardrobe and start wearing clothes that hug your figure and wear your pants at just above the level of your hips and nowhere else, whatever is fashion. Suits and pants should have vertical stripes in order to make you look taller, just as if you are plump, you shouldn't wear horizontal stripes which make you look fatter. Short hair means that you can show your neck, as if this is not on view, you will look squat, which is not the image you are trying to foster. Pant legs should be low enough to cover socks or pats of the foot, and the shoes should be the same colour as the pants, which give an impression of being taller than the reality. Try this and see how different you look.

As well as dressing to suit your height, the most important thing is your posture; stand erect and hold your head up at all times, which will not only make you look taller, but will also make you look more confident, and so more appealing