Victoria's New Secret: Your 7-Year-Old May Be the New Kid on the Bra Store Block

Alicia--I don't know why people don't like reading comments in all capitals. It's not like I'm screaming at you! Do you actually hear my screams? And why is it rude?
Do you know why people write in ALL CAPITALS?
Think about this Alicia......
NOT ALL OF US CAN SEE WELL.........CAPS ARE BIGGER! I CAN READ THE POSTS EASIER. I AM ALMOST BLIND!!!!!!!!!!
WHO ARE YOU OR ANYONE ELSE TO TELL ME WHAT TYPE OF WRITING I DO!?
HAVE YOU NO COMPASSION FOR THE "HARD OF SEEING'?
It's not rude, Alicia, and others who feel this way. Someone once told me that writing in all CAPS is tatamount to screaming.
Excuse me, I don't hear any screaming.
I DO APPRECIATE WRITING IN CAPS SO I CAN READ IT BETTER IS ALL, ALICIA!
DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!

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This doesn't surprise me at all because there are so many problems with our food. Our meats are loaded with hormones and our vegetables are sprayed with pesticides. Let us consider the beef industry. Cows do not eat corn! Should I repeat that! Cows do not eat corn. Our children are smart enough to know that. Have you ever saw a child draw a cow in a cornfield? Cows eat grass, but they are given corn to fatten them up for mass production. We can thank our fast food industry for that. Now consider the milk that sits innocently in the refrigerated section of our markets. Can we say BGH. Come on let's say it together, shout it out, and don't be shy. Bovine Growth Hormones! It is in our milk, once again, it's for mass production purposes. How about the chicken that we eat. Do you want me to go there? Antibiotics, what is up with that. I didn't know that hens and chickens got sick which requires antibiotics. Actually, I did know, but it isn't their fault. If you were couped up in cramped spaces with a thousand other people, you would need antibiotics too, especially if there's no proper ventilation.Those little guys and gals deserve air, sun, and plenty of room to move around. If mass production wasn't the problem once again, our chickens and hens would live in more humane conditions. Where do we go from here? Oh yeah artificial flavors, preservatives, msg, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, hydrogenated oils, dyes, and other names you can't pronounce or spell. So why are we questioning why our girls are getting breast at a young age. Please don't leave out the man boobs either because my sons brought that to my attention. My final thoughts are where oh where is the FDA and the USDA gone. Oh where oh where can they be? No where that's where they are. What happened to regulation? What happened to support our local farmers? What happened to truly making sure that our foods are homegrown with pure and natural ingredients that this great earth is capable of reproducing. I guess I'm a dreamer. I guess I'm expecting too much. I guess I am asking for too much. Actually I'm not and neither should you! Protest, Protest, Protest. That is the solution because this is harming our children and our families. Obesity, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, and all of the other diseases that's related to what we eat and breathe. Awareness and education is the key to prevent some of these problems. We really don't have to eat this garbage because we still have the power of choice to buy and eat healthy.

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I agree with the hormones contributing to this problem.
A friend of mines daughter had this problem, she switched to organic milk (as well as other foods) and within 1 year (things take time) her pediatrition said all signs of early development had resolved.

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It's nothing more than all the growth hormones being introduced to livestock, fruit trees and veggie farms. What did you expect? We are so overpopulated that we cannot wait for a chick to become a hen naturally, so we introduce growth hormones to make that chick go from hatchling to frying pan in 90 days as a necessity. Add to that we keep bulldozing our farms for housing and before you know it our food supply is in even greater jeopardy. Wanna fix the problem: 2 kids per person for 20 years; any more and they ALL will pay the price.

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I am often surprised and shocked to find a cut girl who looks like a teen but is actually a pre-teen! It doesnt help with the clothes they wear. I am not complaining or anything, but some clothes and styles appear to age a young girl....I am not sure if I am saying this correctly...

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We need to come together and protest all these hormones and antibiotics that are being put into our food, buy from local farmers. Its disgusting how these corporations want to save a buck by inhancing our food supply. Half the items we eat are all corn based. This is horrible and will only get worse!

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Sorry, but 7 and 8 year old girls becoming sexually mature is as unnatural as the food they eat! In most of the western world, from Italy to New Zealand and from France to Australia artificial bovine hormones are illegal (given to cows to make them give more milk), but it's good enough for Americans...I drive 44 miles to buy milk free of this crap. Canada even made it illegal because of what it does TO THE COWS! Is the meat these children eat organic? If not it's full of hormones that fatten up the beef and hogs that most eat and is likely a contributing factor. Equally bad, is the fact that 70 percent of anti-biotics in this country are fed to beef and hogs to add more weight to them. This is even polluting their manure so it can't be used in organic gardening! Additionally about 90% of the corn, soy, and beet sugar in the USA is genetically modified, something neither God nor nature ever intended and something the government hides from the citizenry, whereas in other countries they are given a choice and told about this. On top of that the government requires triple the vaccines for childred than it did just 25 years ago, and of course it's just a mere coincidence that the number of chronically ill and disabled children has tripled in the same time span. And then there are the 15 medical czars that the Socialist-Democrats appointed to administer the new health care plan (those who will decide what treatment the doctors will give you IF if it is cost effective). Their names were released over the weekend. They or their staff will decide if your life or your child's is worth saving. Is it any wonder that thousands of doctors are planning to leave the country or change their profession as this new improved health care goes into effect? My mom died last month at 92 and she often said to me, "Aren't you glad you never had any children who have to grow up in what the USA is becoming?" At least she doesn't have to see how congress is destroying our children and our country. Oh, yes, this is all so mysterious!

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Why would any one care if you type in CAPS or not. As long as people communicate that's a good thing. CAPS screaming - come on - I have never heard a letter or a word scream. Different strokes for different folks ya know - slap one women and she gets excited slap another and they get mad. Joke people don't get excited. As for caps or not who CARES. LOL - if that is all you have to do is complain about anything this minor maybe you should get out side, get a life and DO SOMETHING. Get a life, get along and enjoy. Caps or NOT who Cares. BIG deal OUT of NOTHING. Could you still read that - you could – then be happy about that fact not the way it is typed. Think of the people that would love to be able to just see the words, or those that would like to be able to read the words they see. Your lucky in life if your reading this be grateful and pass off the petty. Tracker

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Its all the hormones in our foods and water

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My youngest daughter started developing breasts at 5 years old, and started her period at 7. We took her to the pediatrician who ordered a battery of tests. After many tests and many visits to different specialists, they concluded that it was the hormones that are fed to chickens and cows. My daughter was not overweight and was considered to be in the normal weight/height ratio for her age. Because of her early puberty, she stopped growing at age 12 and now stands at barely 5 feet tall. She is now 16, The early puberty has also caused her to have some emotional problems that we did not experience with our older two daughters.

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Maybe mandkind is heading into a very bad war. It is possible that the early development of reproductive organs is a telltale sign of the new problems the remnants will have after the war. After devastating wars male birthrates usually go up. Anybody managed to explain this yet?

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THE ANSWER LIES IN MILK, PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES, AND OTHER JUNK FOOD.

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Another source of early development is plastic. Certain plastics contain chemicals that mimic hormones. Bottled water, for example, especially when left in your car and exposed to heat.

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Well Pauline, after that post I really don't think there needs to be any more posts because you pretty well covered it all!!!

Karen.......You know...... I have often wondered the same thing as I'm sure others have as well. I think what has happened is some just didn't like the font, caps, or whatever you wish to call it, and it simply just started from there. From there, like a bunch of sheep people jumped in (which is a same way a fad gets started) using the same verbage as the one they heard it from such as the word "scream", which I tend to agree with you makes no sense to me.

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This kind of overdevelopment happened fast to my filly-horse who reached maturity as a yearling. The filly had horrific cramps which led to colic every month which she did outgrow in a year. The vets call it cystic ovaries. The research shows the cystic ovaries are caused more from chemicals in the air. I say it is caused by good food, growing well and faster. The filly was always very well developed for her age. I think the same is true for human children. No starving kids in our society. No one is without food. The growth charts are bigger and bigger until lately it seems we are growing shorter as a nation because of all the illegal immigration. So, our gene pool is shorter now but fatter. Just a condition of TOO MUCH FOOD and not enough lean years.

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Did anyone stop and think that enviromental issues such as advertisements (the kind we didn't see in the 70's) could be causing early puberty. Also, it seems our kids todays are pushed harder to grow up faster. KIM

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I was first one in my third grade class and others got theirs in sixth grades lucky them. at 6?? Crazy and poor little girls out there who should stay little girls as long they can be.

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