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Yes. I am not saying you are wrong. I mean, if a kid is genetically destined to be 5'10" if you feed him poorly he'd be 5'8" and if you feed him very well he'd be closer to 6', he is not getting 6'5" because of better food.
Well, if you look into the article I linked and other studies teh undeniable fact is that nutrition was just terrible in the past. Women in Korea and Japan -- with relatively unchanged genetics for the past 150 years -- have an average growth in height of 20cm.
I'm not suggesting that feeding your kid a lot more calories will make him 6'5", but looking at the height of the grand parents is absurd because of their poor nutrition during the growth years.