If you were born short or average height, it is easy to develop a self-conscious complex about it. In fact, like acne or unhappiness about a big nose or big ears, feeling short can become a major social barrier to confident, enjoyable contact with others. What many short people fail to realise though is that feeling that way is no longer necessary.

Some proven solutions for how to get taller can help you today.

For example, employing a combination of tactics can really help you feel and appear taller - tactics like practising improved posture (most people have poor posture and appear to slump), wearing tighter, slimming clothing, using shoes that offer some additional elevation, exercising with inversion boots regularly to 'uncurl' the spine from daily activities that cause a stooping posture and maintaining a healthy diet (especially with calcium and multi-vitamin tablets).

What should be avoided are surgical solutions like leg-breaking and metal plate insertion. These are severe, expensive and possibly dangerous. Worst of all, they are no longer even necessary.

The thing is, so many people are unhappy with their height now that proven regimes have been devised, developed, refined, tweaked and proven to genuinely help people like you gain height. Best of all, they do not require surgery. All that they do require is your determination and commitment to tackle your single biggest body issue.

Imagine, for a moment, being completely free of hang-ups about your height and being totally confident without that terrible weight of low self-esteem that comes from a body issue. In fact, even though the so-called problem of shortness seems massive to you, it is of little interest to others. The time to act and start actually living your life fully and happily is now.