Posted on 03/08/2005 12:43:01 AM PST by neverdem
REALLY?
THE FACTS - In 1997, when a large study found that girls were starting puberty sooner than usual, many Americans began to cast a suspicious eye on milk. Could artificial growth hormones that had been widely used on cows since 1993 be speeding development in children?
Sales of organic dairy products took off rapidly, but newer studies have found no link. Instead, if girls are maturing sooner, a notion some scientists still dispute, it may have more to do with obesity than milk.
The early puberty theory came from a study suggesting that many girls were developing breasts and pubic hair between 9 and 10, roughly a year early.
A substance given to cows to increase milk production, called recombinant bovine growth hormone, became a prime suspect. But Dr. Paul Kaplowitz, the author of "Early Puberty in Girls," said that the hormone, if it did make its way into milk, would have no effect. It must be injected, not digested, he said.
A study published in 2001, led by Dr. Kaplowitz, showed that girls who developed sooner tended to have higher body-mass indexes. It also said that the findings of the early puberty study coincided with a rise in nationwide rates of obesity.
THE BOTTOM LINE - Bovine growth hormones are not connected to the early onset of puberty in girls.
scitimes@nytimes.com
female
fat
forty
fertile (multiparity)
flatulent, OMG it's global warming! /sarcasm
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.
I've also noticed this during the warmer months, especially at the park, zoo, or movies these young girls are quite developed. And don't mind showing it either.
I had heard, after commenting to my mother and husband's mother, that there was some suspicion about it being caused by growth hormones in the food supply.
You know the thing is, that a lot of these girls are quite thin, except for their breasts, hips etc.
A few years ago, I happened to drive by my old highschool (I graduated a LONG time ago). I thought the place had been turned into a junior college. For a FACT girls were not so well-developed when I was younger.
My wife's cousin is 14 y/o. She has often been guessed as 21.
It may not be growth hormones in the food supply, but something is different....
The five Fs also are the profile of the average gallbladder patient:
Fair
Fat
Female
Forty
Fertile
:D maybe it's in the water?......
I have felt concern for a Grandchild who had to be transferred to soy milk in early infancy because of intolerance to regular formula. Some believe that natural hormones in soy might effect children in some way later on. I actually asked her pediatrician about it and of course, she comforted me but she doesn't know. So many substances are put into our food, most in an attempt to make us healthier, but even too many vitamins or minerals might effect children. When my brother was an infant, my Mother refused to breast feed him because the belief was that "cow's milk" caused children to be taller adults. My view of child obesity is that children do not get enough exercise because of lifestyle changes and parental fear of letting them roam around without adult supervision..Computers and video games along with little space at home to play ball, ride bikes, etc., has an impact.
hmm, wonder what their cancer rates will be?? After a lifetime of hormone therapy in the milk??
if this is true..that might explain why i hit it around 9,scary....(of course im about to get flamed) but i drink a TON of milk i make sure i at least get 3-4 glasses a day
i think ill go hide in a corner now :o/
For a mere $100,000 I won't ping everyone I know.
hmm I remember from my sex ed in school that female puberty was tied closely to body weight.
this was ages ago before the tree huggers started blaming food additives for everything.
I get a laugh out of the dairies *in California* who bleat about their products not having rBST, when it banned by law anyway. another scam to get the gullible "healty" shopper to part with some money
Another illegal alien was convicted of a statuatory rape this week here in Phoenix. His crime involved inpregnating a nine year old who eventually gave birth.
The illegal alien watchers are aghast at this inasmuch as he will probably be deported to Mexico now. The child? The newly born child is an American Citizen. There has been no mention of Citizenship of the Child who gave birth for whom we deeply feel sorry.
YOU SUCK!!!!! lmao
And good thing lazmataz aint in here..he'd get me for sure
I concur. In those days in any group of kids there was one "fat kid". That kid today would not look anywhere near so fat.
Cars were bigger then but my parents got all five of their kids into the back seat of a '57 Ford Fairlane. Try sitting five kids today into the back seat of a limo
Are you sure that isn't the profile of a woman Likely to suffer from gallbladder problems?
The growth hormones in milk are protein hormones (unlike the sex hormones or thyroid hormone). They are destroyed in the stomach when they are ingested so they have no effect in humans who drink milk. That is the reason why insulin (also a protein hormone) must be injected and not taken by mouth.
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