Hey people,

There is a rise in the age where girl are hitting puberty at 10 or even as young as 9. Doctors believe that It may be due to rise in stress and competition. One of my cousins has this disorder where she started having her periods at the age of 11 and she misses them for months..It has something to do with her family genes and the stress she goes through.

Doctors also believe girls are gonna be prone top other kinds of diseases like osteoporosis (weaknening and thinning of the backbones).

Hate to admit it to you hun, but it's normal for girls to hit puberty and, it is also normal that your first few years of your period are irregular. Don't know who told you this, but man I know that they are no doctor! I mean I got my first period when I was in the fourth grade and we asked my obgyn about it and she said that it was perfectly fine.

I don't know about early puberty, but over the span of the next few decades we'll be seeing a lot of things like this. They are the first generation that are born into a world where the pollution level are so high and where there is electromagnetic radiation in the air constantly. This will definitely cause some problems in humans, perhaps they wont be obvious yet, but in 20-50 years who knows.

This isn't just your imagination, actually.

It was proven a while ago that the amount of light the body is exposed to has a very slight influnece on this. There is a certain chemical in your body (can't remember what it was, it started with "m", I'll try to find it) that slows down physical (mental to a much lesser degree) development. The rate of production is inversely proportional to the amout of light the body is exposed to, so less is produced the more light you are exposed to.

It's also supported by the fact that the average entrance aged dropped significantly after the electric lighbulb was intoduced in homes.

Another possible cause is weight gain. Read the appropriate Wiki page for more details on that...

I actually read a report on early puberty being due to hormones in like milk and stuff.... It's supposed to make the cows produce more milk, but girls are starting to get bigger chests and periods sooner because of it....

THis has been the trend for the past few decades. THe average age at puberty has been going down consistently. Social and environmental factors seem to play a major role in this trend. And gals tend to have irregural periods in the first few months after menarche.

Hello memaid,



I did not mention people with genetically affected puberty, I wrote about girls getting them due to the environment, food, medicine, Stress, lifestyle. I wrote about my cousin too who has periods once in 5 months due to her genetical background.

There have been cases where girls who have nobody in their family( Maternally and Paternally related women) having hit puberty at an early age but have daughters having periods due to many factors.

In the place I stay a 5 year old girl was hospitalised for a reason and due to the intense drugs and theraphy she got her periods when she was 6.


*peace*

Cheers

When we had puberty lessons we were taught that girls would go through it before guys would. I can see your point though, the world is changing and evolving everyday and humans are effected by it. I wonder if guys are going through it faster too?

Off topic for the start: OpaQue, several of us looked Mermaid's post over up and down left and right and couldn't for the life of us figure out what was so offensive in it that would cause you to actually say what you said. Then ensued a heated discussion in the shoutbox regarding the pros and cons of the word "hun". I don't know if you're all that familiar with Americana and traditional slang here, but the term "hun" is actually short for "honey" but "honey" is generally considered too familiar to use in mixed company of strangers, "hun", on the other hand, is generally acceptable, if a little on the condescending side but in no way is it "racist" or "Politically Incorrect" or offensive in any culture I'm aware of. Are you now telling the forum that "hun" is off limits? Maybe you should post a thread and list all the words you don't want everyone to use so we're all on the same page. (BTW, Mermaid, it's usually spelled "hon". That spelling probably would've saved us all a lot of grief! )

On topic: Dairy, specifically, American dairy is mostly to blame for the over-saturation of hormones, specifically female hormones, and the first symptom is pudgy early developing kids of both genders. There are other poisons in the environment, but if you want your kids to maintain some semblance of good health, the very first thing you should do is cut off all food not labeled "organic" and forbid them to eat junk food that contains high-fructose corn syrup and vegetable shortening. That's just for starters. Next, source your cheese from a "Raw" milk source, common in France and Switzerland, Raw milk is the only healthy way to make cheese and contains the enzymes that actually make it good for you. Otherwise you're just eating "dead food" and it'll do nothing good for you. Calcium isn't readily absorbed from milk contrary to what the dairy industry would have you believe and should be sourced from vegetables like broccoli and other greens. Don't believe what you see on TV or what your Doctor says regarding diet. Doctors aren't required to take any nutrition courses in college and often have the worst eating habits of all professions and the TV is just trying to sell you something.

Visit a "Health food" store. They're everywhere. Even Safeway has an organic line of food now including baby formula.

This post has been edited by Watermonkey: May 17 2007, 01:40 AM