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Training Bras in Second Grade?

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Here's a red flag for modernity: Pediatrics magazine is reporting this week that girls are hitting puberty earlier. Earlier, like age seven. A study run by the Cincinniti Children's Hospital suggests that the number of seven year old white girls developing breasts doubled from 1997 to 2004. (Black girls were already there.) What's going on? Researchers suspect obesity. Estrogen is stored in fat, so the the more fat you've got, the more estrogen you build up, and eventually all that estrogen triggers boobies. Other possible explanations? "Environmental exposures to chemicals — including pesticides and endocrine-disrupting chemicals like bisphenol A, commonly found in plastics, and phthalates, which are contained in many personal-care products...."

Possible solutions: Grab your little niece and hop the next flight to the happy Kingdom of Bhutan. OR, eat organic, and lay off the plastic bottles of Coke.... (Via Time.com.)