Growing up too Fast

In a study released in the 2007 November/December issue of the journal Child Development, researchers at The University of Arizona and the University of Wisconsin, Madison detailed how girls growing up in a loving and supportive family are more likely to delay the onset of puberty.

What difference does the timing of the onset of puberty have in a girl’s life?

Picture:Girl with father and mother laughing.

Early puberty in girls has been found to negatively affect teenage girls health in the following ways:

· mood disorders

· substance abuse

· adolescent pregnancy

· and cancers of the reproductive system.

The researchers based their study on the role of “family ecology” in speeding up or slowing down puberty in girls. Their theory is that children’s early familial experiences affect how they mature.

Empirical ( Guided by practical experience and not theory, especially in medicine) evidence relating diet and lifestyle to the onset of puberty in girls would probably show that girls with optimal nutrition, as found in an Alkaline Lifestyle, would have the latest onset of puberty.

(The level of growth hormones from dairy products and estrogen mimickers from chemical pollution, has probably also been a LARGE factor in hormonal disruption of American children in the last 60 years.)

The book by Rose Frisch entitled Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection is a must read on this subject for both the modern father and mother.

In the book the former Harvard professor details the different nutritional requirements of a growing girl as to a boy.

I recall when growing up of sitting down to family meals where we all ate the same thing.

There were both boys and girls at the table. The growing girls should have been eating different foods than the boys. Rose Frisch explains the science behind why girls and boys require different nutrition over much of their whole lives,

but especially during the formative years.

Something rushed to completion before its time usually is defective. This is true in mechanical things and living things.

Considering that a baby takes 9 months to grow in the womb and another 19-22 years before attaining complete growth it is no surprise that disturbances in the process would create imbalances.

Imbalances in the body are called diseases.

Emotions affect hormone levels.

If you were suddenly frightened you could possibly die, The expression, “you almost frightened me to death” has a element of truth. Sudden fright has been known to kill people. When the body goes into fear, the blood chemistry changes radically. It can take the human body hours to clean up the effects of fear, anger or hate. Since Hormone levels change in response to emotions, such as Love or fear, you don’t need a PhD to figure out that the hormones will affect a growing child’s physical development.

Hormone Levels affect the body's physical development.

A girl that grows up with out peace and emotional stability will be physically affected,as all children would, whether male or female.

Families that are well ordered, prosperous and filled with love produce healthy children more so, than families that are filled with strife, poverty and fear.

Some things are just natural results from living a certain way. And of their own selves the presence of a factor begets many others and vice –versa.

Fear=dis-ease

Love=peace

Peace=understanding

Understanding=knowledge applied

Knowledge applied =Healthy Lifestyle choices

Of course prosperity with out understanding and love generally produces only disease and fear and does not necessarily assure proper nutrition of children. The so called “rich” kid growing up without Love, who turns to drugs, alcohol and immorality, is a proverb in American society.

Where there is fear there is imbalance. Girls growing up with out the nurturing of Love will grow up too fast in all ways, not only physically but mentally.

"Love one another."