According to this article they are
GIRLS are starting to hit puberty at the age of THREE.
Shocked doctors blame hormones in food and water for some British toddlers showing signs of breast growth.
Other pre-school youngsters even experience periods that normally start in their teens – and have temper tantrums just like adolescents.
The phenomenon is feared to have become more common since the 1990s – with doctors having to give increasing numbers of tots jabs to keep puberty at bay.
The mum of one girl, who at three was found to have the “bone age” of a nine-year-old, told how she was stunned when her daughter began acting like a ratty teen.
Hayley Holden said: “She used to slam doors and try and hit me. We’d go to supermarkets and she’d lie on the floor screaming.
“At the time, I just thought I had an ‘Omen’ child.”
She was stunned when medics told her Ellie-May – now eight – needed hormone injections to stave off puberty.
Harley Tedds, now ten, also has the painful jabs. Her mother Bernie said: “At five-years-old Harley was shaving her armpits and legs.
Filed under: Children's Issues | Tagged: Puberty
Processed food ?
http://hwpnow.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/how-the-us-government-is-helping-us-get-fat/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M5Xm5RYTRY&eurl=
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum,
My comment on this issue, including the programme mentioned in the Sun article:
Sensationalism over early puberty
Wow! when I read this article , it make me think about the intimidation my mother had for me as an 8 year old. I didn’t look it because I had the body of a 15 year old. Even my older brother had a moustache by 12.
In elementary school, my female classmates thought my friend( who also was the same age as me and was well developed as I was) and I were “complete”. They wanted to look like women. My friend and I thought it was a curse! We could not understand it. “We’re kids! why do we look like teenagers?!’ There were high school boys and dirty old men wanting to pick us up. As a 10 year old, my mom had to fire a plumber because he was trying to hit on me.
As I got older, it got worse, to the point where I wondered if I was going to see my 11th birthday. My ex-neighbor’s nephew, who nobody ever trusted, threatened and attempted to assault me and another girl( since then he is serving a stiff sentence for selling drugs/possessing crack cocaine. God forgive me, but it is just the news I wanted to hear). I think about how my friends want to look life women, I was wishing that I could look at my much smaller, little sister as people knew her age –and not get all of those perverted looks from older men/boys.
Several days ago, I went to check on my nephews at their school and it just amazing of the growth of the students. While the boys were short to average sized, the girls were something else. I’m average height, but some of those 4th graders in his class were about 5′9′. Once again, I seen myself in some of those girls as they wondered about ” being women”. I just told them enjoy your childhood while it lasts.
Is it the food? I think it plays some role in it as some it contains from form of hormones in them. Maybe my growth came from that, but I also wonder does genetic play a role in it?. My maternal grandmother and her sister told me they had some of those same struggles as a young girl. In her days( she’s now 84, my late aunt was 90), they grew their own fruits and vegetables, killed hogs and chickens to eat. I’m still baffled about it and if I had a daughter I would be just as concerned about her as my mom was about me.