Posted on 08/09/2010 11:26:00 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
A US study shows that almost one in four black girls and one in 10 white girls had developed breasts by the age of seven.
The findings are the latest in a string of studies showing that girls in the US are reaching puberty sooner, with implications both for the social and emotional wellbeing of girls as well as for their physical health in later life. Early maturation has been shown to cause low self-esteem and doubts about body image, as well as greater rates of eating problems, depression and attempted suicide.
It is linked to earlier sexual experiences, and later on carries greater risks of breast cancer.
The researchers found that at the age of seven 23.4% of black girls, 14.9% of Hispanics and 10.4% of white girls had developed breasts.
At 8 those proportions had risen further to 42.9%, 30.9% and 18.3% respectively.
A similar survey completed in 1997 found the proportion of white girls who had developed breasts by seven was 5% half of what it is today.
The proportion of black girls in that bracket has also shot up in the past decade, from 15% in 1997 to 23% today.
Studies have shown that in the 1700s girls began menstruation on average at about age 17-18, though that might be as much to do with widespread malnutrition as with other factors.
Experts point to several possible causes of the declining age of puberty.
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I am starting to actually move towards eating more organic stuff. Makes me feel like a hippie but I think there’s something to it...
Combined with other factors, probably, but yes.
found some references to the studies that I remember under a google search of “study father in home delays puberty”
I agree. And the little girls all dressed up to look like miniature women doing those beauty contests are just sickening.
That certainly seems to line up with the chronology. It will be the LAST thing studied, though...for political reasons.
I was wondering if what they call “breasts” are really like, “nubs” that form on little fat girls, and yes, I can remember it happening to black girls more than whites.
Somebody mentioned that it seems to accelerate most among cohorts that are having children early - could it be an instinctual “competition”, a sense that the first to menstruate is the first to procreate?
Probably. We already know that women living in proximity will “synchronize.”
“I read something a while back that said soy in the diet has a major effect.”
Non-fermented soy is a major player here. Soy is estrogenic. Soy was never meant to be food for humans or for animals. The far east uses much lower amounts of soy in their diet, and it is mostly fermented soy.
Soy milk is a major source of the problem in children. Soy milk should never be consumed by anyone. It induces prematuree puberty in young girls, causes delayed puberty in young boys, and soy is cancer inducing because it is estrogenic.
I believe this. Many in the scientific community also believe it. There have been studies, papers written. Google it if you have doubts. You will find info supporting the hazards of soy, those saying it is poppy-cock. I choose to believe soy is a serious hazard.
Can fermented soy be used for the same purposes as non-fermented?
Just wanna support you on that as a remembered fact. I don’t have the reference, but I recall reading that as well.
Yes, they start “cycling” together, which I always thought sounded funny. But, like sending all the neighbor kids around when one kid catches measles, it’s more convenient for everybody to get it out of the way at the same time.
What about lactose-intolerant babies?
There are now more people in the gene pool from hot climates. People from nearer the the equator reach puberty sooner than people with Northern European genes. Northern European genes once dominated the US gene pool: not anymore, thanks to open borders and “here comes everybody” immigration from the Third World.
Oh my gosh! Made it up?
You must be a scientist.
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My daughter is 9 and I cant imagine her mom having to explain why she is bleeding from her vagina.
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