puberty (was: life expectancy, romance, that fatefull night, scabbers

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 4433

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> Warmsley wrote:
> 
> > Actually, there was a thing about this on TV the other day.
> > Apparently it's going *down*. Kids now go through puberty 2
> > years earlier than their grandparents...
> 
> Yeah, for the same reason that Oriental kids aren't necessarily
> little short people--better nutrition.

It is said that there has been a decline in the age of puberty over 
this whole (twentieth) century. Most of that was due to better 
nutrition, but my friend Lee read in the newspaper about 9 years old 
not being rare as the age of puberty nowdays. She was horrified and 
said that it must be due to the estrogens in beef and chicken 
(everyone here *does* know that non-organic livestock producers 
feed estrogens to cattle and chickens to make them gain weight 
faster?).