Posted on 07/03/2010 10:53:04 AM PDT by Duke C.
The first reports of a steep drop in the age of puberty began to emerge from the U.S. just over a decade ago - around the time my son Tony was born - but I didn't take too much notice back then.
If it was a real problem, I reasoned, I would know someone with a child in this situation and back then I did not.
As with so many other health stories, sceptical scientists quickly stepped in to criticise the methods used in the American studies, while others blamed the lifestyle there - too much obesity, too much sitting in front of televisions and computer screens and too much hormone-treated beef.
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I have a daughter who is almost 9 who has had some early onset of puberty. She has a twin who doesn’t show the same signs.
I should say that we have had her checked out by the doctor because they were concerned she might have a disease that ages her quicker. Sometimes having a twin is a great asset because you can do direct comparisons with someone who is the exact same age and lives in the same environment.
It’s that aphrodisiac the Muslims said the Jew put in chewing gum.
We really need to be asking some questions about the way we’re feeding and caring for our kids, as this becomes more common. It’s not just an emotional issue or a matter of inconvenience; early onset of puberty is a predictor of reproductive cancer in later life.
Worried with a 5 year old girl. This should have more research dollars than the BS we fund . . . gay hook ups in Soviet Republics and that kind of crap.
Don’t count on it. Only a very small group of people give a **** about kids these days. The overwhelming majority of “people” in western society would sooner kill a child for a better sex orgy.
I would imagine that the pharmaceuticals (hormones) that are ending up in our groundwater and surface water is a contributor. All those years of septage with traces of birth control pills might have an effect.
Everybody should take a deep breath and relax. Biology is no dummy, and so does what is best for reproduction and species survival. At the same time, this means that it is *somewhat* responsive to changes in the environment. Were talking millions of years of evolution, here.
So to start with, what could be causing children to experience puberty earlier? One of the big things is “good nutrition”. They have what it takes to be healthy. So if you want to delay onset of puberty, what do you want to do, starve your children?
Physical stress, and the lack of physical stress, can also affect the onset of puberty. So if you want to work your children to exhaustion, the run them five miles every day, don’t be surprised if they don’t experience puberty until they are 17, even if their bodies are buff.
Parents, too, can affect their children. If you wait until you are 40 before having children, I would not be surprised if they mature faster than normal, because for much of human history, 40 was rare old age. So the kids bodies would “know” that the kid had better learn to fend for him or herself quickly, as their parents will be dying soon.
Conversely, parents with faster metabolisms might find it perfectly normal to have kids at 16, grandkids at 34, great grandkids at 50, shortly before they die. They naturally burn their candle at both ends and have shorter lifespans. So the earlier they *can* have kids, the better.
That’s intriguing!
Soy, soy, soy, it is in everything, it is full of natural estrogens. When we grew up we had natural and easily obtainable saturated fats, now they push soy. Dry products, extended with soy. Health food, full of soy.
I’ve gone back to using lard and bacon grease for things because just anecdotally, I don’t see fewer people with heart disease but only fewer people who die of it and that has to do with good medical care. Back in the day, you could use a good dishwashing detergent to clean the top of the stove but now it takes elbow grease because these new vegetable and soy oils congeal and stick like crazy and I just imagine what it is doing to my insides.
We have calves to butcher soon and I’m going to render some of the fat. I will admit that I have never regularly eaten beef treated with hormones because we raise our own and that could be a reason but I really believe that the soy is a huge problem.
This is real common in countries that allow hormones in beef cattle.
Don’t count on it. Only a very small group of people give a **** about kids these days. The overwhelming majority of “people” in western society would sooner kill a child for a better sex orgy.
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You are VERY out of touch, my friend. Maybe you’re spending too much time hanging out at the free clinic observing what you claim firsthand - but the MAJORITY of American Parents love their children and try to provide the best they can.
It is NOT the fault of parents that there are more and more chemicals/hormones being slipped into the food supply. Most do not have a degree in bio-chemistry to figure out what’s on the labels.
Interesting. We use olive oil and butter, avoid processed foods when we have the cash to do so.
Nowadays you see more and more young girls, 12 years or so, and lately even younger, with developed breasts and defined figures; and also boys with highly defined musculature, etc.
Some years ago, when this stuff was just beginning to happen, I was told by a physician that in both cases; both girls and boys, this is an indication that as infants they were fed a certain brand of formula instead of breast milk. He did not specify WHICH brand of formula, and I did not have the presence of mind, or the chutzpah, to ask him.
A study made in Jamaica about twenty years ago placed a lot of blame on the eating of chicken that had been fed hormones. Also milk from cows that had been fed the same way. Speed up food production,with spiked feed, end up with these results.
If soy then wouldn’t the asian cultures have earlier onset of puberty?
Anyone worried about their kids can take some steps to prevent this and other symptoms of environmental neurotoxins:
Don’t buy cheap chicken and beef. Organic grassfed beef and organic free range outdoors chickens. Spend more and get actual FOOD grade meat. Go see where they are raised and you’ll get a clue.
Don’t cook or serve food in plastic. Don’t store food in plastic. Don’t buy much packaged food at all, and if you do buy packaged food, make sure it’s dry items without fat. Try and avoid cans that have BPA in their linings. Most have it.
Learn about vitamins and nutrients that protect against toxins and inflammation. You can do better by your kids.
I was at the pool last weekend and there was this girl about 10 who was already developing breast and hips were already expanding. I am not trying to fix the blame, but women are delaying childbirth, I wonder if that has something to do with it. Only 2000 years ago Roman 12 yo girls were marrying and having children.
Another culprit is better prenatal care.
Asians have soy all the time, and they don’t have any problems with it.
I’d point my suspicion towards three things:
1. Female birth control..
2. Hormones in beef cattle and for extending milk production in milch cattle.
3. Hormones added to plants to produce seedless fruit.
There might be others, such as food additives mimicking hormones, but I’m not sure kids get much of those to cause concern.
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