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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are this controlling, prepare yourself for adolescence. My teen boy can eat 4 bowls of cereal and then eat 4 more later in the day. Unless your kids are overweight, chill out.[/quote]

9 year old girl vs. teen boy

Hmmmmm.......

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Girl during puberty vs boy during puberty.

Every post that people make freaking about their daughter and carbs is right at 9, or 10, or 11 when girls are starting puberty and their body is screaming at them that it needs fuel for the task.  We react to this in our daughters by policing them, and in our sons by celebrating.  And which gender has more issues with obesity, and eating disorders?  Hmmmmm . . . .

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9 year olds should not be going through puberty and if they are obesity is the prime culprit. [/quote]

Puberty starts several years before a girl's period.  9 is a very normal age to start, and increase in appetite, and particularly wanting carbs is one of the early signs.  [/quote]

8 years is precocious puberty. The average age of menarche is 12 or 13. Technically 9 is """normal""" but it is definitely not desirable, and it is closer to precocious puberty than average.

“The age of puberty, especially female puberty, has been decreasing in western cultures for decades now,” Chapa said. “For example, at the turn of the 20th century, the average age for an American girl to get her period was 16 or 17. Today, that number has decreased to 12 or 13 years.”

It’s not just girls, a study from the American Academy of Pediatrics found that boys were starting puberty earlier than previously recorded. According to the findings, boys are now beginning puberty around, or a little before age 10. Previously, 11 years of age was the given number where boys began puberty. The study claimed that the public health implication of these findings is unknown and requires further studies.

There is no definitive answer to why the age of puberty has dropped so dramatically, but there are theories, whether it’s the [b]increased body mass index in children[/b], nutritional factors or hormone influences in dietary intake. Because we don’t know exactly why it’s happening, there’s no real way to stop somewhat-early puberty, but it’s important to know how it can affect your child’s health.
Puberty effects on health

“Early puberty in girls has been associated with increased risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, obesity and even diabetes in adult life,” Chapa said. “Some of these conditions are related to prolonged and early exposure to estrogen from the active ovarian cycle.”

There are mental health risks to early female puberty as well, especially for a girl going through a big change before her friends.

“Early female puberty has been associated with future psychosocial complications like depression and substance abuse,” Chapa said. “This has been theorized to be a result of neurodevelopmental changes of hormones, such as dopamine and serotonin, caused by puberty, which can lead to risk taking behavior, or simply maladaptation to early onset of secondary sexual characteristics when peers are less physically developed.”

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