Kingfisher
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Concise article. Right to the point. Thank you, I bookmarked that one to pass around.
Why are girls entering puberty at such a young age?
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Concise article. Right to the point. Thank you, I bookmarked that one to pass around.
Facetious
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I concur.
They're very difficult to evade these days . . .
It goes on . . .
We're all Monsanto's guinea pigs :ak47:
Mr. Daystar
In a bell tower, watching you through cross hairs.
I'm not implying. I'm inferring.:tongue:
MTV?
Global Warming?
Fast Food?
Evolution?
:dunno:
Global Warming?
Fast Food?
Evolution?
:dunno:
I actually had this idea of happening back in like junior high or early high school. I believe it happens because they see a lot of sexuality everywhere (beauty mags, tv, etc.) and when they know guys react to that, they want that and I think their brains send a message to release hormones at an earlier age
Sexual images can perhaps influence behavior like experimentation or body image/self-esteem.
But not your genes. Puberty is regulated by genes which trigger after a period of maturation. Typically the sex organs will release the chemicals for further sexual maturation at the appropriate time; unless this is interrupted by outside factors like perhaps the chemicals in the food we eat. Much of this is determined in the womb.
Seeing images wont' change that. Before puberty sex is typically a curiosity and not a driving force. After puberty begins this obviously can change. However the desire (in heterosexuals) is typically to view images of the opposite sex. Your hypothesis would require women to be viewing pictures of other women and having a sexual reaction to them. Which would be homosexuality in some sense. Unless you're thinking it's like how women can "cycle" together; but that's again, based on hormones and proximity rather than viewing a woman who is cycling at the time.
The idea of images bringing on physical change like sexual puberty would be summed up as: "Correlation is not causality".
Not only in this case but it would apply to everything visual. For instance; movies, books and video games and violence.
meesterperfect
Hiliary 2020
now that's fucking interesting man.
so you're saying its psychosomatic?
interesting, I wonder if thats been studied or looked into because I believe it may have some merit.
Either way, girls bodies are maturing faster and their brains slower.........sounds like a recipe for disaster if you ask me.
Atar good post but if chemicals can stimulate genes why can't emotions which do cause chemical reactions in the body stimulate them as well?
You're probably right but maybe DJ is on to something.........or maybe just on something , I don't know.
SpexyAshleigh
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Hormones in food - they inject our produce and animals with hormones to make them grow at an alarming rate for quick slaughtering and production - what makes you think that those very same hormones aren't making our children grow at alarming rates as well?
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
I've noticed that too. I took a friend to pick up her kid from elementary school a couple of years ago. I noticed that there was a huge number of chubby kids leaving the school - both boys and girls. I don't know much of anything about physiology. But my guess is the obesity problem is related to diet and lack of exercise and the early onset of puberty is more diet/chemical related.
When my dad raised beef cattle (up to the early 80's), growth hormones were almost unheard of. Now pigs, chickens and beef are full of that crap. I don't know, but it just seems logical to think that if you eat pork, chicken or beef, and the animal has been given something to dramatically accelerate its rate of maturity, it's probably going to affect the person eating it. :dunno:
Whoa, hold on about the milk, the dairy industry has been basically removing rBST from the supply for about the last 5-7 years. For many reasons:
1. It has a bad image, which hurts customer confidence.
2. We have too much milk in this country as is, and smaller dairy farmers are being forced out of business, to the benefit of mega dairies. Producing milk without rBST gets smaller farmers a premium price on their milk.
3. Farmers hate Monsanto
When you go to the store, check the labels on your milk, most of the containers at this point will carry a label that says something along the lines of "This milk was produced without supplemental Hormones".
Other animal products are following suit, as a way to make more money. Consumers want products produced without added hormones.
I have heard other theories that the crazy level of vegetable oil used in modern diets contributes to this a whole lot. Vegetable oil raises estrogen levels, which can start the progress toward puberty.
Also as a higher percentage of the population is overweight or obese, the appropriate body mass for the trigger of puberty is reached earlier. Fat stores in the body do crazy stuff.
1. It has a bad image, which hurts customer confidence.
2. We have too much milk in this country as is, and smaller dairy farmers are being forced out of business, to the benefit of mega dairies. Producing milk without rBST gets smaller farmers a premium price on their milk.
3. Farmers hate Monsanto
When you go to the store, check the labels on your milk, most of the containers at this point will carry a label that says something along the lines of "This milk was produced without supplemental Hormones".
Other animal products are following suit, as a way to make more money. Consumers want products produced without added hormones.
I have heard other theories that the crazy level of vegetable oil used in modern diets contributes to this a whole lot. Vegetable oil raises estrogen levels, which can start the progress toward puberty.
Also as a higher percentage of the population is overweight or obese, the appropriate body mass for the trigger of puberty is reached earlier. Fat stores in the body do crazy stuff.
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
Not really related to why 10 year old girls are suddenly sprouting breasts... or maybe it is :dunno: - but here's an interesting piece on our meat supply.
Drug-resistant bacteria found in half of U.S. meat
Drug-resistant bacteria found in half of U.S. meat
This is the correct answer. I am not going to flat out say that growth hormones given to animals has nothing to do with this phenomenon, but science does not support that conclusion, at least YET. Higher fat diets, and children with more fat on their bones, is supported by science.
Arden Adamz
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I've always been under the impression that it has to do with consumption of hormones, experimental techniques for farming, pesticides, and other chemicals we ingest one way or another... There is such an overwhelming population at this point... the demand for food has in turn created the demand for new processes. It's difficult to find food in the supermarket that hasn't been altered in some way for packaging, shipping, growth, appearance, or storage...
Arden Adamz
Official Checked Star Member
I've watched a few eye-opening documentaries, and read a bit about Monsanto... There's quite a lot of damning knowledge out there. It's certainly not every day that I think of my food as being political but I've started to put a lot more thought into how & what I consume since learning about the bull shit going on with our agriculture and food industries.
Girls are getting titties at a younger age these days, nut even more importantly...
So are boys.
So are boys.
Gotta watch the sources of information you get that stuff from. There are ecocrazies out there that want to scare the shit out of you. As I said before the amount of hormones in animal products have been rolled back big time over the last 5-7 years. Not because of some scientific information that that says they aren't safe, but because consumers don't want them. Farmers hate Monsanto, and when given the option will use whatever product Monsanto isn't involved with.
As I said before look up estrogen puberty and vegetable oil on the internet. That stuff isn't sponsored by animal rights activists looking to scare you out of eating meat, with false information.
