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Research indicate That Junk food Causes Puberty As early As Age 6
The onset of puberty has fallen by more than five years in girls - with experts blaming kids’ unhealthy lifestyles for it.Some girls are only six or seven years old when they have to cope with their first period, the Sunreported.
A US study has found that boys are also hitting physical maturity two years earlier than they did in the past.
Scientists found that the average age for the onset of puberty in girls was 16.6 years in 1860.
But by 1920 it was 14.6, in 1950, 13.1, in 1980, 12.5 and in 2010 it had decreased to 10.5.
Experts fear that this problem could lead to an increase in young girls getting pregnant.
Marcia Herman-Giddens, from the University of North Carolina where the latest research was carried out, claimed that obesity may well to be blame as it alters the body’s hormones — with some starting to show the first signs of maturity as young as six.
The average age for white and Hispanic boys is 10, while it is 9 for black boys.
Tam Fry, honorary chairman of the UK’s Child Growth Foundation, has explained this as a “ticking timebomb” for today’s society.
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nshendi
November 6, 2012 at 1:37 pm
More unmature adults
mando*
November 6, 2012 at 1:51 pm
sad sad
Chama Febie
November 6, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Tumfweko why are you adding (ok here it is)to my comments amlabishi atase
mali
November 6, 2012 at 3:38 pm
@chama Febie, You are very right, infact it is not even amalabishi, but it does not sound nice, (ok here it is) atase, what english is this, these idiots who have taken over the scene are trying to teach us, they allow rubbish to be published, what term of english is this, I have stayed with whites for a long time, I have never heard them say (ok here it is) ala, mwambwa mwe, stop adding that unsound part fools.
mike
November 6, 2012 at 4:41 pm
@ Chama and Mali i thought this was suppose to be a social media?
Me in bemba ine
November 6, 2012 at 9:15 pm
Let me also try to see if it will also happen,ok here it is
' Unmature'
November 6, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Immature!
very funny
November 6, 2012 at 10:41 pm
That explains GBMs behaviour despite looking matured
kapandula
November 7, 2012 at 1:44 pm
ka sweet 6 kuti walya
Mojito
November 8, 2012 at 3:33 pm
GMO GMO GMO GMO GMO GMO