The Pre-teen Girl Mystery

This is just one example of physical manifestations of environmental changes. Look at the huge increase in Autism. Today one in one hundred sixty babies born in the US will be Autistic to some degree. Cause unknown.

Another example is cancer. Not just lung cancer from smoking either. Both prostate and breast cancer occur at very low rates in third world countries.

I read a report by a physician from India in which he compared rates of these cancers in both people in India and in people from india who emigrated to the US.

The Indian population showed normal low rates but the immigrant population showed rates which matched the normal US rates.

How much more evidence do we need that our lifestyle and our products are killing us in ways we haven't even imagined yet?

it's kind of obvious that if you feed a child meat from cows etc that have been injected with the growth hormone that the child will also grow at a faster rate of development... we all agree alcohol and drugs ingested by a pregnant woman affect the baby, why is it so hard to believe that even second handedly consuming the BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE will affect us the same??

I always thought that girls were starting their period earlier because of the rise in childhood obesity. It's known that the fatter a child, the sooner he/she is to mature.

It be a lot better if people could clearly know what's in something artificially made beforehand.

It could be that it is a result of eating better or more. I think to start your period you have to be like 110 lbs and because we eat more we get there faster than in the past. I agree with the other posters that this is linked to a worry about the premature sexualization of children; boys and girls

@onemalefla - I'm almost old enough to be your daughters' mother, and I started my period when I was 11. That's generally always been a pretty typical age to start. And as far as bra size, some girls just develop earlier and larger than others. I'm not a D, but I was fully developed - as in, wearing the same bra size I do now - by the time I was 13.
As others here have said, there have been panics about this for decades already. It's B.S. Nothing gets eyes on news print better than some hand-wringing over girls being "prematurely" sexual. If it was a problem that was linkable to some commonly-used chemical, then boys would be affected by it too. How about we freak out about boys' bodies and sexual development for a while, just for a change of pace.

This is a fact that has been poo-poohed by almost everyone i tell it to. A lot of people still think that if the gov't lets it happen then its safe,

surely the fda would do something if it was changing our children in such an obvious and substantial way?

its got to be something because girls--young girls are developing earlier.

It's funny how many times this point has come up over the last 20 years of my life.

At first, we were thinking it's gotta be radiation.