Girls now reaching puberty at age nine

Girls now reaching puberty at age nine, thanks to chemicals in the food supply
Saturday, October 30, 2010 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer

(NaturalNews) The average age of puberty in girls is now nine, in a phenomenon increasingly being blamed on rising obesity and exposure to hormone-disrupting pollutants in the food supply.

The study was conducted in 2006 by researchers from the world-renowned Department of Growth and Reproduction at University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark. The researchers found that among 1,000 girls, the average age of breast development was nine years and 10 months, a full year earlier than when a similar study was conducted in 1991.

"We were very surprised that there had been such a change in a period of just 15 years," researcher Anders Juul said.

....Early puberty can be hard on children who are mature physically but still young emotionally, experts warn.

"All the things we experience as teenagers are difficult enough to cope with, but when it happens at 10 or 11 it is much worse," Stanhope said. "These children are also at a much higher risk of being sexually abused, because it is hard for some adults to understand and behave appropriately towards them."

A girl interviewed anonymously by the Times of London said her early development subjected her to teasing at school.

...."If girls mature early, they run into teenage problems at an early age and they're more prone to diseases later on," Juul said. "We should be worried about this regardless of what we think the underlying reasons might be. It's a clear sign that something is affecting our children, whether it's junk food, environmental chemicals or lack of physical activity."

"We don't know if this is the result of better nutrition or environmental factors, but it does create social problems for girls who are already living in a sexualized society," agreed Richard Sharpe, head of the human reproductive sciences unit for the United Kingdom's Medical Research Council.  FULL STORY

The sexualized society is the result of the "research" of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, considered to be "the father of the sexual revolution."  Our society has been dealing with all of these issues SCHIZOPHRENICALLY ever since.