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Posted on 08/09/2010 11:26:00 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
Our kids weigh more...it’s mostly about weight.
What is freaky is how it is not stopping. How much further can it go, and what is really driving it? It was easy to say 'better nutrition' for the first century or so, but for the last 50 years or more adequate nutrition is not an issue.
OK, now that I read the article I see it made the same points... doh.
Fathers in the home delay the onset of puberty.
The racial disparity of this study correlates with that.
Need to cross check the results with the kid’s body fat index. I’m betting breast development is faster for chubby girls - a more ‘abundant’ environment causes them to be ready for childbearing earlier.
Hormones in the Chicken .... bar none that has got to be some of the most damaging stuff we’re consuming as a nation.
I suspect you're probably right, at least in part. It would be interesting to see a comparative study of the Amish or some other group that didn't have the same volume or intensity of exposure to our media culture.
Maybe it has something to do with decades of estrogen being pissed into the water supply?
No, it can’t have anything to do with that. That’s related to women empowering themselves by enabling them to have pregnancy-free sex with strangers in dance club bathrooms.
I am a misogynist for even asking the question, I know.
And the daughter that got her period MIGHT have larger breasts. But she wears blouses and well-fitting shirts with a padded bra and the other still wears a kid’s bra under a sweatshirt or a baggy T-shirt - so I’m not sure!
My wife was a long-distance runner in High School. She claims she actually reversed puberty by cutting body fat. Periods stopped, etc.
However, she also went vegetarian, too.
Very feminine now, though.
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Early maturation is also related to obesity which would also lead to the other outcomes measured in the study.
I’m sure the authors were aware of this connection but just forgot to mention it.
Two different trained health professionals examined the girls two separate times between 2004 and 2006 to distinguish between breast tissue and fatty tissue, the researchers said.
Pollutants that mimic the female hormone estrogen might also be contributing to early puberty, said study author Dr. Frank Biro of Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
"Whether [they be in] food that they've eaten, or products that are used for personal care products, as well as products that could be used at their homes," Biro said.
The researchers are beginning studies to determine whether environmental exposures to chemicals could be contributing to earlier puberty among girls.
It is thought that a combination of genetics, environment and individual factors like weight cause puberty to begin.
Previous research on puberty, specifically the menstrual cycle, has indicated that girls who start menstruating at age 11 or younger have an increased life-long risk of breast cancer.
“Fathers in the home delay the onset of puberty.”
Are you asserting causation or just correlation? Does your assertion apply equally to male and female offspring?
The study, as I remember it, asserted a correlation to the delayed onset of female puberty with the presence of the father in the home.
The correlation reversed, however, if the mother re-married.
Or they hide it in San Francisco because they know pervs there like them pre-pubescent.
Yes...even when I was a kid in the 80s we still had it.
There’s a middle ground. While I don’t support the Victorian idea that women weren’t even taught what a vagina was, and didn’t even know what it was their husbands were doing to them on their wedding night, I also don’t believe 9 year olds should wear miniskirts, makeup, and behave as they do today.
My own unprofessional theory is that it’s a lack of intellectual engagement combined with a surplus of calories.
Presence of a tiny amount of testosterone in the air perhaps?
I wonder if an older brother has the same effect.
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