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Puberty’s Monologue by Jessica P. Posted Mon 02 Aug 2010 6:26pm a poem by Lauren Schmidt At some point in my sleep last night, three scabbed avatars approached me with a filet of skin, holding it like a coat, coaxed my slither into it. My sock-inside-out body-bones and blood, muscles, tendons, organs, guts-were comfortable like extreme freezing: so cold the mind’s confused, misfires burnin ... Read on »

High-Fat Diet During Puberty Might Increase Breast Cancer Risk by Aaron Tabor Medical Doctor

Posted Fri 10 Sep 2010 7:23am Puberty is a critical developmental stage of life during which many changes take place, including changes in breast tissue. Breast tissue changes include the development... Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center examined the impact of high-fat diets during puberty in mice on breast development. For this study, two strains of mice were fed Read on »

Puberty and Down Syndrome ~ Part 1 by Shannon .. Registered Nurse

Posted Mon 15 Jun 2009 4:16pm is titled "Part 1." I know this is going to be a reoccurring topic through these next few years. I am certainly not an expert on puberty and Down syndrome through each stage. Heck, I... to believe she was entering puberty. At first, I was in denial. "Where is this rash coming from?" It was better on the days that I used Phisoderm on her face. Then, one day fairly Read on »

Absent Father Might Mean Earlier Puberty for Higher-Income Girls by Medline Plus Posted Fri 17 Sep 2010 6:00am ) -- Girls growing up in higher-income homes without a biological father are likely to reach puberty earlier than others, new research finds. "In higher-income families, father absence predicted earlier puberty, but it did not in lower-income, father-absent [households]," said study leader Julianna Deardorff. "Girls in upper-income households without Read on »

Atrazine Causes Prostate Inflammation in Male Rats and Delays Puberty by nih.gov Posted Tue 24 Aug 2010 9:00am inflammation and to go through puberty later than non-exposed animals. The research adds to a growing body of literature on atrazine, a herbicide predominantly used to control weeds... increased with the strength of the doses. Puberty was also delayed in the animals who received atrazine. The doses of atrazine mixture given to the rats during the last five days Read on »

Atrazine Causes Prostate Inflammation in Male Rats and Delays Puberty by Medline Plus Posted Tue 24 Aug 2010 1:03pm to develop prostate inflammation and to go through puberty later than non-exposed animals. The research adds to a growing body of literature on atrazine, an herbicide predominantly.... The severity of the inflammation increased with the strength of the doses. Puberty was also delayed in the animals who received atrazine. The doses of atrazine mixture given Read on »

Childhood Obesity Linked to Early Puberty by Linda MacDonald Glenn Healthy Living Professional

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:27pm

1 Comment A new study is suggesting that the rapid rise in female early-onset puberty has to do with the BMI and amount of body fat in toddlers. The study followed 354 girls age 3-12 who were either normal weight, at risk of being overweight, or overweight, and found an association between elevated body weights and the early onset of puberty (determined Read on »

Early puberty: what are the signs? by Dave W Healthy Living Professional

Posted Fri 18 May 2012 9:38am Early puberty, also known as ‘precocious’ puberty is defined as the physical changes associated with puberty starting before the age of eight years in a girl and nine years in a boy. How can you know if your child has started undertaking these changes, what are the signs, and can anythi ... Read on »

Menopause: Puberty to The Tenth Power by Lynette Sheppard Registered Nurse

Posted Thu 14 May 2009 4:35pm that there are depths to some of the unfairness that need to be plumbed. One of the deep injustices of particular concern to us has to be the difference between puberty and menopause. Not only are the physical, emotional, and mental changes that occur during menopause akin to puberty squared (or maybe puberty to the tenth power), but the amount of external support Read on »

Early Puberty by Matt M. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 09 Aug 2010 4:05pm I saw in the newspaper where kids are hitting puberty at earlier ages. The article mentions a few things like obesity as being the cause. The real cause is nutrition via... not enter puberty early. The bigger problem is that hitting puberty early also predisposes a person to various cancers. Luckily, there is a simple solution to all this: make sure Read on »