Tag: puberty

Oh No, Earlier Puberty in Boys Too?

Is this an interesting study? I’m not so sure. The title gets your attention, for sure, because we’ve known for a while now that our girls are going through puberty at earlier and earlier ages. But boys too??(please share this article with parents of young boys) Here’s what they did Researchers compared...

Puberty coming earlier for U.S. girls: study | Reuters

Why? Most likely because they are overweight. Compared to the 1997 findings from girls across the U.S., girls in the current study – especially white girls – were more developed at a younger age. As previous research has shown, there were also large differences in development based on race....