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  4 0 To answer your second question about the fallout, there's evidence that early menarche in girls is linked to a higher risk of breast and ovarian cancer, especially if it accompanies late menopause. The longer those hormones are coursing through a girl's/woman's body, the greater chance she has of getting estrogen-related cancer. keshmeshi answered in Kid Health & Safety about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  7 4 Almost all commercially raised animal foods are full of hormones, including dairy. As well, there are many things like plastics, pesticides, etc. that are estrogen mimics. Best to avoid commercially produced meat and dairy and stick to organic, free range foods, and use only metal and glass containers (even the plastic liners in canned foods have estrogen-like chemicals in them). hamish answered in Kid Health & Safety about 1 year ago | Report 9 comments by kitschnsync, rogitator, and Arsenic7… 0 0 Why would someone thumb answer down? Weird. kitschnsync commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Maybe they disagree with hamish's answer, on scientific details. For the record, I did not vote either way. rogitator commented about 1 year ago | Report 2 2 I did, for one. The questioner seemed to be looking for a factual answer and one was presented as such but my belief is that it is actually an unsupported opinion. Arsenic7 commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 The EPA takes endocrine disruptors pretty seriously. You can see details about their efforts to screen for them here: http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/oscpendo/index.htm Also, the Food Quality Protection Act and amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act were specifically crafted to guard against these kinds of pollutants. Can you explain why you think these actions were unsupported? kitschnsync commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 No where in there does it say that endocrine disruptors are what you get in the meat or milk of cows that have been exposed to growth hormone nor does it link them to early onset puberty. You are making huge leaps of correllation. Arsenic7 commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 I'm not sure if you are referring to the link that I posted or the answer we are commenting upon. If it is the former, it does address the environmental contaminants that hamish mentions. There are also linked studies which try to ascertain the effects of hormones cast off in animal waste. It doesn't have any studies up about ingesting meat or milk which has been exposed to hormones, but that wasn't the totality of hamish's answer. If it is the latter, I think it is reasonable to infer that by "estrogen mimics," hamish is referencing what are more broadly known as endocrine disruptors. kitschnsync commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 If you want to see some studies and articles that do connect endocrine disruptors with early onset puberty, just google "endocrine disruptors puberty." There are numerous studies and articles on it from credible sources. This isn't completely kookville. kitschnsync commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 You are pointing out the existence of a chemical that affects body development and then jumping to the conclusion that it is the cause of earlier puberty onset in thee modern age. It seems to me that nutrition and higher body fat, both widely documented as factual differences in todays children vs those of the previous century, both factors well linked to puberty onset, are a more likely or at least a more determinate, factor. Arsenic7 commented about 1 year ago | Report 0 0 Oh, I wouldn't rule out other factors as well. It's quite likely a multi-causal thing. I do think environmental contaminants are more than "unsupported opinion," however. kitschnsync commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  7 4 The prevailing theory for this is that better nutrition actually has a lot to do with it. I believe 10 is still fairly young on average but remember that everyone is different. There are still young women starting puberty at 15. There isn't any evidence that eating organic will delay the onset of puberty far as I know. Not to mention starting puberty isn't exactly a disease and doesn't mean there is anything wrong with you. Additionally there may have been social pressure against disclosing information about ones cycle in the past. Arsenic7 answered in Kid Health & Safety about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by Arsenic7… 4 0 Also note that body fat has a strong correlation with the onset of puberty. As our children trend towards the chubby side we should expect them to start puberty sooner. A quick bit of research also implies that this trend extends to countries with similar levels of obesity but lower levels of growth hormone in food (like canada). Arsenic7 commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  5 2 To learn more about hamish's answer below, try googling for "endocrine disruptors" or "xenoestrogens." The effects of these pollutants are pretty shocking. They've been linked to childhood obesity, breast cancer, prostate cancer, early onset puberty for females, and stunted genital development/low sperm count for males. Who knows what else we will eventually find out... kitschnsync answered in Kid Health & Safety about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 0 I am repeating my answer to a related question from three months ago: "There is strong supposition that the increased chemical soup that children are being exposed to through products and processed foods are involved. Certainly the xenoestrogens in plastics and the phytoestrogens of increasingly modified foods (including high soy isolate inclusion) may be implicated in the early maturation and change in normal hormone growth cycles. Other sources include hormones in meat production and pesticides and other chemicals used on crops. For the rest of us (adults) this exposure could be affecting normal endocrine systems, aging, inflammation processes, disease, tumor growth and maturation." Reference: http://questionland.com/questions/16988-why-do-kids-girls-know-days-go-through-puberty-so-early Russ Campbell, NWEBS answered in Kid Health & Safety about 1 year ago | Report 1 comment by Arsenic7… 0 0 There is suspicion, I suppose, but the science seems to support other explanations. Namely obesity and nutrition. Arsenic7 commented about 1 year ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  4 2 I asked this of my daughter's pediatrian several years ago, and was told that it is because of the better general health and nutrician in the USA. She said the general trend has been to lower starting ages due to good health in general. She didn't indicate that this was a problem or "bad", just as a result of improved health. O my captain answered in Kid Health & Safety about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Don't know if anyone mentioned this, but the original study that figured out that girls have their periods at age 12 or 13 was flawed. They looked at white, middle class girls in the same area. Zero diversity - and this was many moons ago. If the pool is broadened out to include a more diverse race/class bunch, most girls have their periods at 10 or 11. That and we're fatter and healthier and therefore ready to breed sooner. Goody. Amy Lang answered in Kid Health & Safety about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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