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Dragon

Kids are growing faster. Way faster... and taller. I got my period when I was 12 and I was early compared to most of the girls. These days kids are are starting to develop in first grade. My youngest got her period when she was NINE. That's just not fair to the world. My children will be tall, there father is 6'4", and I'm the shortest one in the family. My 14 year old is already 5'8". But it's not just them... I think at 5'4" I'm shorter than the entire 8th grade except about 5 kids!

It's not just the growth hormones in meat. My kids have never had meat. Only chicken. We've eaten organic milk as much as possible, but not all the time. I only recently realized that they sell butter in a non-growth hormone version.

I've really come to believe that growth hormones, not antibiotics are responsible for kids accelerated growth compared to a generation ago. It's in a lot of food products, but especially dairy. Makes me wish that I'd rethought our diet for our children when they were younger.

It's been on my mind. Wanted to post it for all the women that will one day have children.

03/11/2009

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LikeSunshineDust

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Ugh...Every time I hear about things like this, it makes me not want to have kids at all. This is a such a bad world to bring anyone into. :-/ I do really want to have kids someday though. UGH! What to do...

03/11/2009

Cinnamon Chambers

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Originally posted by Dragon

My husband is 6'5 and I am 5'3. His mom is 6'2, so I do not know if it is his genes or what, but our daughter is 8 and is less than a foot shorter than me. I think she is a little more than 4'9. She is taller than her brother that is a year older, but she is showing no signs of "developing" yet. Her feet amaze me, they are the same size as mine and she has to wear a size 10/12 in shirts because her arms are so long, but she is just bones. She is still about 60 lbs. I can't believe how big they are and how fast they grow!

03/11/2009

Nashville

Do yourself a favor- when you go to the grocery store look in people's carts. Do they have a lot of processed, packaged foods? How do their kids look? How do they look?

We love carbs in my house but expanding waistlines have caused me to reevaluate what I allow to come into the house. Organic is expensive but it's worth it in the long run. There are so many diets out there that can literally change your life- raw food diet, gluten free, vegetarian or vegan with organic grown fruits and veggies.

"Environmental hormones are today so commonplace that it is almost impossible to avoid them. They come from pollutants, drugs, hormone-injected meats and dairy foods, plastics, pesticides, and hormone replacement drugs. In the last ten years we have become more aware of how common environmental estrogens are. Nearly forty percent of pesticides used in commercial agriculture have been found to be hormone disrupters. Earth’s waterways are connected, so chemical pollutants containing environmental hormones reach your food supply wherever you live." <-- from link

03/11/2009

Miss Cinnamon

I started my period when I was 11 (I'm 19 now), and I had one friend who started before me at age 10. I have another, more androgynous friend who never started her period naturally and finally her doctor prescribed her birth control pills to jump start her period (otherwise, she was developing fine). My sister, a few years younger, had hers at a similar age. I find it strange that the replies on this thread generally remark that children are getting taller and taller--in my observation, the freshmen entering the high school I graduated from seem to be getting smaller and smaller. Then again, I've always been rather tall because of genetics, so that could just be a perception issue.

Maybe I'm just not "green" enough, but I've never felt a huge urge to go organic. Organic foods are VERY expensive when you compare the difference in spending between a year's supply of organic foods and the same amount of general, run-of-the-mill groceries. They taste a little better, but I'd love to see a "Pepsi challenge" for organic foods. I guess the main draw is that they are supposed to be hormone-free and "safer", etc. However, my mother always bought from the fresh produce section and maybe I'm naive, but I don't feel any negative side affects. In fact, our family is one of the healthiest in the neighborhood. We don't use a lot of salt in our food (but not so little that our food is "bland") and we purchase very few processed foods and pre-made dinners, etc.

Like I said, organic diet isn't one of the things I do a lot of research in. Would anyone like to give me a few key points and advantages?

03/11/2009

Dragon

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Originally posted by Nashville

I actively avoid processed packaged foods. The simple rule that I teach my kids is that the easier it is to identify what foods it is, the healthier it is.

Still... I fundamentally do not believe that girls should get there period as young as nine because there bodies have grown so well and so healthy. If the trend continues, then my grandchildren will develop even younger.

As for the cost of organic... If you can afford it all the time do so. The cost of organic chicken and milk is incredibly high for a family of four- especially in California when the cost of living is high. We made the choice to buy as much hormone free as possible first, organic second. Until recently I never even noticed "hormone free" butter.

03/11/2009

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