How to Help Girls Cope With Early Puberty—or Avoid It

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my daughter is Asian and very slim (at the bottom end of healthy weight BMI). She is 8.5 years old and has started needing deodorant and is growing breasts. I thought, if anything, she would be a late bloomer--so why is she blooming already? She was adopted, so I have no family history to draw upon. Any thoughts?

me of NC 6:46PM September 07, 2010

Thanks nyscof of NY for the great information on Flouride and Melatonin. http://smartempowered.com/buymelatonin

Dart 2:00AM September 03, 2010

We have made it a priority to always buy organic for our kids as much as we can. It can be more expensive, but the cost is minimal when you look at the overall picture. Our daughter eats things like organic eggs, organic Kamut Flakes cereal with organic milk for breakfast and we use organic bread whole grain bread for lunches. We are hoping to be able to afford organic meat too to really round out the edges. It's not a choice for us because we want to do everything we can to help our daughter and our son be as healthy as possible.

smilinggreenmom of IN 1:29PM August 17, 2010

Growth hormone and antibiotics are the blame. Too bad the U.S. doesn't do like Europe and make you prove the substance is safe before you release it and everyone is exposed. But alas the almighty dollar rules again in the U.S..

icu2 of IL 12:33PM August 13, 2010

Fluoride Could be Contributing to Early Puberty, Studies Show
"If fluoride's dangers had not been taken off the scientific radar screen by the US Public Health Service when it prematurely endorsed fluoridation in 1950, maybe key warning signals would not have been ignored for over 50 years," says Paul Connett PhD, Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network.
In 1956 it was reported, after one of the first fluoridation trials (1945-55) had been completed in Newburgh/Kingston NY, that young girls were starting to menstruate on average five months earlier in fluoridated Newburgh compared to non-fluoridated Kingston (2). This result was ignored and there was no follow-up research.
In 1997, Dr. Jennifer Luke in the UK, as part of her PhD thesis (3), reported that fluoride accumulates in the human pineal gland. The pineal gland produces the important hormone melatonin which acts like a biological clock. One of the processes it is thought to control is the onset of puberty. Luke published this work in 2001 but the result has been ignored and no fluoridating country has attempted to repeat her findings, something which would be easy to do if there was the will to do so.
Luke also found that animals exposed to fluoride had lowered melatonin levels and showed signs of reaching puberty earlier. Again this result has been ignored and no fluoridating government has attempted to repeat Luke's work.
Connett says, "We are not saying that exposure to fluoride is a definite cause of early puberty in girls, but not pursuing this possibility is bad for science, bad for medicine and bad for public health."
Simply put: if you don't look, you don't find. The medical community is being kept in the dark on the possibility that fluoride, a highly toxic substance, which is deliberately added to the drinking water of 184 million Americans daily, is causing a variety of harms from the subtle to the serious.

nyscof of NY 3:27PM August 12, 2010