Girls Are Maturing Earlier

What about the hormones and chemicals in the foods we eat?

Hey folks,

You know I've talked about this many times in the past. To recap, I told you that when I was in school, little girls looked like little girls. Little boys, little boys. Oh, there may have been one or two girls that went home for summer, and came back with signs of boobs. But today?

I challenged you, but I should have clarified a bit as pointed out to me when I did, to go sit at a bus stop. Now I'm not telling you guys out there to go sit at a bus stop and stare at the little girls getting off the bus. I should have said, when you are out and about, if you get behind a bus that is letting kids off, take notice. If you go and sit at a bus stop and you have no kids? Yeah. Don't do that. Don't ride around in the morning staring at all the kids waiting for the bus. You may end up answering some questions.

My point is, notice that difference in the kids. Little girls as young as 10 or 11 are getting on and off the bus, looking like they are 16. 14 to 15 year olds look like they are 18. I've been asking why for years now. What happened? What changed?

My first thought was hormones. All the growth hormones that we put into animals to make them grow faster and fatter. More and faster profit. Well, logic dictates to me that if you are putting growth hormones in food we eat, then we eat it, would it not have similar effects on us? Even if you are not a big beef person, you drink milk? You get the point.

So it seems that finally, someone is actually looking into this trend. I'm not sure I understand nor agree with this. However, if you think about it, they may be on to something here. According to Fox 10 Phoenix - Obesity chief suspect as UK girls as young as five reaching puberty

LONDON -- Girls are experiencing signs of puberty as early as five years old in the UK and the average age of puberty onset in girls has dropped by five years in the last century.

Wait. FIVE YEARS OLD???? If this is true than we need to speed up our research. That's insane.

Research on the worrying hormonal trend shows that the average age girls start experiencing puberty is now 10, The (London) Times reported.

Tabitha Randell, a consultant pediatrician at Nottingham Children's Hospital, said she has witnessed a case where a four-year-old girl was developing body hair and body odor.

Research conducted on thousands of UK girls in 2010 found that the group was "maturing significantly earlier" than girls in previous studies.

Parents and scientists are unsure about the possible causes. Obesity, however, is the biggest suspect.

OK. So what is causing the Obesity? What is Obesity? Bigger, fatter, more "meat." More on this in a second.

Stress is also considered to be an accelerator. US research has argued that prolonged stress caused by, for example family breakdown, could alter hormones in the body and speed up the process of puberty.

Stress makes no sense to me. I have never heard that stress can alter hormones increasing earlier puberty. That doesn't make any logical sense to me. But at least they are honest. Which is a start.

"The simple truth is we don't know why it is happening," says Professor Richard Sharpe, an expert in early puberty at the UK Medical Research Council.

"Obesity is the biggest factor that we know of. [But] there's clearly something else. Is it environmental chemicals, is it societal stress? I would say on the evidence, environmental factors are not a major player."

The medical community has agreed that more research is needed, but have advised parents to watch their children's weight.

Well at least they are not blaming this on Global Warming. I agree that more research needs to be done with this. May I suggest that we start with looking at the hormones we put in our food? Pretty please? Growth hormones are given to animals, such as cattle, and chickens, and even in some fish. The reason is simple. It is to make them gain weight faster, thus producing more products for consumers at a faster rate. Growth hormones also increase milk production in animals. So dairy farmers can increase their product and hence, profit. But what about the negative health repercussions for humans.

As they say, garbage in, garbage out. Or, you are what you eat. Whatever you put into your body, has an effect on your body. Good and bad. Early puberty in girls as been said to increase their risk in developing breast cancer and some researchers had started to think that there may be a risk of increased risk of colon cancer with certain growth hormones.

So if you put something into a cow to make it mature and get fat fast, would it not at least be worth looking into the relationship with consuming products with the hormones in them, and both early puberty and Obesity? Maybe the Obesity epidemic is NOT solely from poor eating habits. Perhaps it's not what we are eating, but what, what we are eating, is eating. Or being injected with. Just a thought.

Peter
Sources:

Fox 10 Phoenix - Obesity chief suspect as UK girls as young as five reaching puberty