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SoCalDem

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28. Nutritious & plentiful food adds weight (fat) which triggers puberty

Mon Nov 4, 2013, 12:23 PM

Nov 2013

Extreme-dieters/super-athletes often "lose" their menses.

Nature intended for healthy young females to bear young

the hormone laced food and all the empty calories of modernity packed on the pounds. Fat cells produce estrogen too..

Females used to ovulate a LOT less (way back when)

If you used age 14 as the onset....marriage at 16/17 and then sequential pregnancies and lactation (which often suppressed ovulation), it's easy to see that ovulation happens a lot more frequently these days... I have read articles that link the frequent ovulation to the rising reproductive cancers in women.

The female was intended (by nature) to reproduce/lactate/and then die

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Early onset of puberty in girls linked to obesity [View all] Jesus Malverde Nov 2013 OP

yikes my daughter didn't hit it til 11 gopiscrap Nov 2013 #1

11? Jebus Crikey! I was 14!!! Myrina Nov 2013 #8

yeah she wasn't 11 til 2009 gopiscrap Nov 2013 #39

IIRC, breast development has been beginning earlier, but menarche has not moved too much. Brickbat Nov 2013 #2

not good for us humans...... dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #3

It's not evolution. Avalux Nov 2013 #9

Evolution takes a very long time to produce biological changes ? dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #31

Thanks for that. Avalux Nov 2013 #34

I didn't mean to sound sharp dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #38

Hormones go into cows, pigs, and chickens bettydavis Nov 2013 #4

sounds like they dont want those results reddread Nov 2013 #19

Menopause in the 40's JustAnotherGen Nov 2013 #5

Ugh. So true, your last sentence. :( nt laundry_queen Nov 2013 #13

We'll just make a pill for that! adirondacker Nov 2013 #20

Of course we will JustAnotherGen Nov 2013 #26

Do you mean to say Insurance companies aren't going to pay for nuticles! adirondacker Nov 2013 #32

Ahhh JustAnotherGen Nov 2013 #35

Good thing I have a couple of veterinarian friends! :) adirondacker Nov 2013 #36

Very well said. nt redqueen Nov 2013 #30

.... and rBGH/antibiotics/hormones and HFCS in crap-food we feed kids ... Myrina Nov 2013 #6

And carts may push horses Brainstormy Nov 2013 #7

True, but obesity probably makes their impact greater FarCenter Nov 2013 #10

vicious circle. Chicken and egg question as well. laundry_queen Nov 2013 #12

The egg came first FarCenter Nov 2013 #14

the rooster came first leftyohiolib Nov 2013 #33

thank you for science lesson, but Brainstormy Nov 2013 #16

Can you provide documentation of that? Orrex Nov 2013 #21

studies Brainstormy Nov 2013 #40

Interesting Orrex Nov 2013 #41

Other factors laundry_queen Nov 2013 #11

Wow. 50 yrs ago, I hit puberty at about age 12.5. I read that in Nay Nov 2013 #15

I didn't know about that in the 1500's, interesting...nt Jesus Malverde Nov 2013 #18

IIRC, the cause of the later puberty in the Middle Ages was Nay Nov 2013 #22

Nutritious & plentiful food adds weight (fat) which triggers puberty SoCalDem Nov 2013 #28

i didn't hit puberty (get my period) until i was 13.5... Scout Nov 2013 #17

I hit puberty at 16! blueamy66 Nov 2013 #24

Got my period at 11 PasadenaTrudy Nov 2013 #23

What's happening with the boys? Auggie Nov 2013 #25

Apparently with boys, obesity can delay puberty davidn3600 Nov 2013 #37

estrogen is stored in fat... VanillaRhapsody Nov 2013 #27

This isn't entirely new info -- a certain amount of body fat MUST be present for the body ... moriah Nov 2013 #29

I started when I was 11, and that was 26 yrs ago before all the alarms started going off. liberal_at_heart Nov 2013 #42