Interesting article.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17465229/

Very interesting indeed. I wasn't a particularly chubby LITTLE kid, but around 7 or 8 I started gaining, and definately hit puberty around 9...

I wonder how much the chemicals they put into animal feed and animals, and the chemicals they use on fruits and vegetables has to do with it.

I wonder how much the chemicals they put into animal feed and animals, and the chemicals they use on fruits and vegetables has to do with it.

I think this is more likely the culprit than obesity itself. I was a big girl but was almost 14 before menstration started and boobs started taking off. My friend, who was a string bean got her period at 10! This was before they began injecting hormones into livestock & adding it to chicken feed. Perhaps it's the hormones not only causing early puberty, but aggrivating childhood weight issues! things that make you go hmmmmmmm

I think this is more likely the culprit than obesity itself. I was a big girl but was almost 14 before menstration started and boobs started taking off. My friend, who was a string bean got her period at 10! This was before they began injecting hormones into livestock & adding it to chicken feed. Perhaps it's the hormones not only causing early puberty, but aggrivating childhood weight issues! things that make you go hmmmmmmm

I was the opposite to you. I was average weight until I hit puberty at 10. The very day of my birthday, in fact. Absolutely wonderful present. I had NO CLUE what was going on. After that, though, I started gaining weight, and by the time I turned 17, I weighed 190. I'm 5'3", btw, so I was a little bowling ball.

By the way, it's absolutely WONDERFUL to have boobs when you're 10. Makes the girls love you, and the boys are SO nice. :girl_hug: You're lucky you developed later.

Does anyone remember the infants (still in their cribs) who developed breasts and grew pubic hair because of the harmones the farmers were were feeding their chickens in order to get the chickens to lay more eggs? The you girls' breasts shrunk and the public hair dropped off as soon as the infants stopped eating the eggs.

You know puberty and breast development in particular was sort of scarey for me because of how much they grew. First of all I was the third tallest girl in the entire fifth grade (and at that age girls tend to be taller). Then junior high happens and so does puberty. So these boobs start growing and I have to learn how to do everything with these things in the way now... Seriously LOL. It made playing the flute and PE and all sorts of other basic activities more difficult. Then two years later in the eighth grade I was up to a D cup. And I was 5'6' then and probably about 170-180 pounds. And these things on my chest hadn't showed any signs of slowing down and I honestly thought that maybe I would have to get a wheelbarrow for them or something. But then they did finally stop growing and I was still able to walk upright so it was ok except for some blouse fitting issues I still struggle with.

And I don't know about obesity or many hormones.. I was overweight but not super overweight. And I became a vegetarian in Junior High but the boob growth didn't stop with that and I rarely ate eggs growing up because I've always disliked them intensly...

Oh and I was a tiny thing actually when I was little until I was about four years old. Thats when I started growing like crazy... But I was a preemie and I remember before that people telling me I was small for age, I was so little, etc.