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    I just caught this on ABC..... damn! They're saying that its becoming more and more common for girls to hit puberty early now. And that FIFTY percent of African American girls are hitting it at age 8 now. Holy shit.


    I'm looking for an article online now...
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    I remember years ago in the enquirer about a 9year old girl with 2 kids, to a 12 year old boy. Apparently, she hit puberty at a very young age, but it was the enquirer, so I doubt it was true.

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    gosh... that'd be awful getting your period at that age. i was only 11 when i got mine, and it was horrible. i can't imagine being only like 7 years old and trying to understand periods!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy Foxx
    gosh... that'd be awful getting your period at that age. i was only 11 when i got mine, and it was horrible. i can't imagine being only like 7 years old and trying to understand periods!!!

    Yeah, I was about the same age as you. Can you image that poor 5 year old though? Damn.
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    I was pissed off that I got mine at 16 - was hoping I'd gotten out of it LOL. Of course by that age I knew VERY well what it was. I can't imagine being 5 years old and having to understand all that Poor kid(s).

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaigeDWinter
    I just caught this on ABC..... damn! They're saying that its becoming more and more common for girls to hit puberty early now. And that FIFTY percent of African American girls are hitting it at age 8 now. Holy shit.


    I'm looking for an article online now...
    I believe this. I remember when I was in elementary school there were a few in my class that already had it at 8-9 years old. Little earlier than me, I got mine at 11.

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    I got mine at 11, but my sister got hers around 9 or so. I remember her crying and my mom having to show her what to do. Man that must'v ebeen embarassing.

    On that note. When I was 14 I worked at a daycare with a 4 yr old girl who had a hormonal disorder. She already had breasts at an a cup and a unibrow, very hairy girl too. I'm sure she probably got her period very early too, but at the time I quit there, she hadn't had it yet. The wierdest thing was is she was a very thin girl. Remember the big girls in like second grade? They all had breasts, but this girl was a tiny 4 yr old.

    I once had a friend tell me that she saw on Opra that the hormones in things like chicken were causing little girls to develop way earlier. Don't know if it's true, but I guess it could be. I'm pretty small, and flat chested, and I never eat chicken. It just tastes gross to me. Maybe my problems are partially to blame on no chicken, maybe not, but I wish I had a nice big pair : (
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    LOL. My mom cried like if it was a big deal. I was like, "drats, now I have to wear a mini diaper." I was very nonchalant about it.

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    They've found a direct corrolation between beginning age of menstruation and weight. In general a girls body fat must hit 19% before menarche occurs. With the increased prevalance of overweight kids it makes sense.

    For the record the youngest age of pregancy on record was a 5 year old Peruvian girl.
    http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp



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    My daughter just turned six and I don't think either of us would be able to wrap our minds around it. I read a few years ago that the chemicals that's in our food (perservatives, addatives,etc..) were linked to early menstrual cycles in the US. I'll be able to handle it(better) if she's +10.

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    This is actually a really serious issue - I just read a huge New York Times article following these five preschoolers in L.A. who were showing signs of puberty. It was so messed up - they traced all cases to cosmedics and other household items that contained estrogen like chemicals. In one case in was a performance enhancing topical cream the dad had used and then just by simple skin to skin contact his little son started exhibiting all these weird symptoms and they did tests on him and found his hormonal levels to be like twice the level of an adults or something. It's so sad. I really wish this country would make all that crap illegal. I don't even know what is in all the stuff I put on my body. It isn't right. My friend who works at a spa says the chemicals they use in most of the body treatments are completely proved to be cancer causing, but it's not illegal or anything.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirona
    They've found a direct corrolation between beginning age of menstruation and weight. In general a girls body fat must hit 19% before menarche occurs. With the increased prevalance of overweight kids it makes sense.

    For the record the youngest age of pregancy on record was a 5 year old Peruvian girl.
    http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/medina.asp
    Reading that hurt my heart.

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    Here's an article, they call it "Precocious puberty." The article is suggesting obesity and environmental pollutants as possible causes.

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    I heard it was milk.

    I always buy organic milk. Just in case, couldn't hurt.

    They put alot of hormones in non organic milk. To help the cows produce more.

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    There's significantly elevated levels of female sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone etc.) to be found in the drinking water in most places as a significant portion of the hormones in BC pills is flushed right out again through urine. Most studies that I am ware of have focused on the effects on male fertility (drastic reduction) and hormonal imbalances in males (feminization, gynecomastia etc.), but I would not be surprised if that played a role in the early onset of puberty as well.

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    A five year old girl got pregnant in some odd country. And her father refused a paternity test. Ew.


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    Our whole environment is being poisoned. Early puberty is because of hormones given to cows and chickens to make them produce more meat and milk and eggs, because of dioxin in every mother's breast milk, because of fake hormones in formula, because of estrogen in the water, because of weird chemicals and hormones in everything, because of light pollution (seriously - your body is supposed to regulate itself to the night time light cycles of the moon, but if you live in the city it's always light at night, and that affects your development). They can't just outlaw a few things and fix it, they would have to dismantle civilization.



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    Wow...that is disturbing.

    I had a friend in college who got her period when she was 8 and a half years old. Then I had another friend(who I danced with) who didn't get her period until she was 16 years old. Shit...here's a scary thought...if that 5-yr-old pregnant girl Lena Medina had had a daughter, and her daughter went through the same thing as Lena(i.e., early puberty then getting impregnated at age 4/5), and so on, then Lena woulda been a great grandmother before my dancer friend was reproductively capable! OK that is a bit of a stretch, but I wanted to demonstrate how scary that is! Did doctors ever come up with a conclusion as to what specifically may have caused Lena's precocious puberty disorder? They said it was probably a pituitary-based hormonal disorder, but I wonder what factors caused it?(i.e., genetic mutation, environmental chemicals, etc)

    I can't help but think, no wonder so many young girls and boys are trying to act sexy at such a young age. If girls are starting to get their periods at 8 yrs old, then they will probably become interested in boys at 10, and interested in sex at like 12. Meanwhile, back in the 1800s and prior, it was more common for girls to start puberty later and to get their periods at 16 or 17 years old. I find that very ironic. Because back in the 1800s, it woulda made more sense for girls to reach puberty earlier, since the life expectancy was shorter back then, people married at earlier ages, and people tried to have lots of kids so that they could pitch in with the family farm chores or help out with the family business. Whereas today, it would make more sense for girls to reach puberty at a later age, since in this day and age people generally spend more years in school, wait longer to get married and have kids, and are subject to stricter laws of what is considered an "adult" versus a minor. It seems very backwards and mixed-up. This precocious puberty trend also seems kinda counterproductive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhillyDancer1982
    Meanwhile, back in the 1800s and prior, it was more common for girls to start puberty later and to get their periods at 16 or 17 years old. I find that very ironic. Because back in the 1800s, it woulda made more sense for girls to reach puberty earlier, since the life expectancy was shorter back then.
    Actually, that trend of increasing longevity is about to reverse again due to increasing obesity and its associated diseases (type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease etc.). In the US the current generation of kids growing up is the first in the last couple of centuries that is projected to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. At least a third is expected to develop diabetes by age 30. I remember when I grew up how diabetes was an exceedingly rare condition that only affected a rather small number of elderly people.

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    Oh wow that does not look good. I think there are a lot of things that we can individually control(our diets, our sexual lifestyles, etc) that are the cause of many diseases/disorders, and then there are a lot of things that are outside our immediate individual control yet part of the environment(hormones in milk, pollution, hazardous chemicals and carcinogens, etc) I think cancer is a big problem these days, too. I keep hearing about more and more young people dying from cancer, it's scary. My mom lived a perfectly healthy lifestyle and got plenty of exercise, but died from cancer at age 50.

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    And I hope I do not develop diabetes by age 30...I've already noticed that I cannot tolerate much sugar without feeling pretty sick. This intolerance to sugary foods started a few years ago when I was 20 and in college, and suffered from malnutrition because I couldn't afford adequate food. Even after I started eating better, the sugar intolerance stayed. My grandfather developed Type II diabetes later in life(probably in his 60s). Now I am worried...

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaigeDWinter
    I just caught this on ABC..... damn! They're saying that its becoming more and more common for girls to hit puberty early now. And that FIFTY percent of African American girls are hitting it at age 8 now. Holy shit.


    I'm looking for an article online now...
    I hit puberty around age 8..I started getting body hair and breasts..Didn't get my period til I was 15 though

    I do understand why girls are coming of age faster..with all the hormones in all these foods that they eat. It's only a matter of time.







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    Quote Originally Posted by susan22
    Actually, that trend of increasing longevity is about to reverse again due to increasing obesity and its associated diseases (type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease etc.). In the US the current generation of kids growing up is the first in the last couple of centuries that is projected to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents. At least a third is expected to develop diabetes by age 30. I remember when I grew up how diabetes was an exceedingly rare condition that only affected a rather small number of elderly people.
    I saw the same program about obesity. It's sad how people are eating themselves into an early grave, while others are starving in other parts of the globe.

    If people are now eating so much as to become obese (not just chubby, but obese) and there are hormones injected into our food products, it's easy to see how one might be exposed to a critical dose of said hormones. Say there are only trace amounts of hormones in food products, but then people over-eat, it all adds up and they are getting quite the hormone dose!

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    I got my cycle at 10 1/2, it started getting regular around my 11th B-day. I had to start shaving my legs at 9!! I didn't even know how sex worked when I started!! I wanted to stay a kid forever!!! And I'm 36! So this isn't a recent obesity case. I have heard it mentioned that girls of Latin background start to develop sooner than those of caucasian ethnicities. I don't know if there is any truth to this information.

    Come to think of it, I did start getting romantic feelings towards boys at around 6 or 7. I just wanted to kiss, hug and hold hands. I didn't know that any thing else existed beynond that. Thank goodness

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    This is crazy. I just want to eat space food or something. My poor kids aren't going to be able to eat anything I haven't researched. Where's the effing FDA?

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