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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of this has to do with hormone consumption.

An organic diet and girls will hit puberty later.  If eating meat and milk for example with hormones, puberty will obviously hit earlier.  A girl down the street was nine when she got her period - crazy![/quote]

I ate LOTS of hormone injected meat and milk as a kid.... didn't have a period until I was almost 14 (13 yrs. + 11 mos.).  My DD also eats mainstream meats and milk (nothing organic or hormone free -- well, I don't look for that on the packages, I just buy what's in the normal stores)... and at almost 11 yrs, she has nothing under her arms (except stink).  I'm not saying there isn't SOME influence of hormones in the milk/meat making puberty earlier across the human population... but it's apparently NOT a significant change or not a 100%  correlation.

What does make puberty earlier is WEIGHT.... the more fat you have on your body, the more estrogen you will have in your system b/c fat holds estrogen.  Maybe that's why I was a late bloomer and my DD will probably be too.[/quote]

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