Eating 1 cup of chopped carrots provides you with 10,605 micrograms of vitamin A, which is far more than the 900 micrograms required daily for men or 700 micrograms for women, according to the Linus Pauling Institute.
Rare exceptions are usually the result of a secondary factor, such as excess fluid around the brain (hydrocephalus). The most common cause of dwarfism is a disorder called achondroplasia, which causes disproportionately short stature. This disorder usually results in the following: 1  An average-size trunk.
Head control is also delayed, and the majority of children with the condition are unable to hold their heads up independently until after seven months of age. Children with achondroplasia start to walk at approximately 18 months and at two and a half years old around 90 per cent of them can walk.The delay is the result of a combination of muscular weakness in the legs, hypermobility of the knee joints and an unusually large, heavy head, which is difficult to balance.f two people with achondroplasia have a child, there is a 25 per cent risk that the child will receive two copies of the mutated gene (a homozygote for this particular gene) causing significant skeletal abnormalities.