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Now, baby, Cissy Caffrey said. Say out big, big. I want a drink of water.

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By the 1980s, the onset of puberty, if not actual menstruation, had gone into free fall–a change so sudden and pronounced that something more than normal evolution must have been at work. In a landmark 1997 study of 17,000 [US] girls, more than 10% of white girls and an astonishing 37.8% of black girls were showing early breast development by age 8. (…)

Later studies, one in 1998 and another in 2010, included Hispanics and produced similar results. On average, 2 out of every 10 white girls, 3 out of 10 Latinas and 4 out of 10 black girls are showing breast development by age 8.

Obesity, a well-established puberty accelerant, is high on the list of suspects.

{ Time via Overcoming Bias | Continue reading }

photo { Mustafah Abdulaziz }





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