{"id":2329,"date":"2010-08-10T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/puberty-coming-earlier-for-u-s-girls-study-reuters.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T09:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:33:02","slug":"puberty-coming-earlier-for-u-s-girls-study-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2329","title":{"rendered":"Puberty coming earlier for U.S. girls: study | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n

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At age 7, approximately 10 percent of white girls and 23 percent of black girls had started developing breasts – compared to 5 percent of white girls and 15 percent of black girls in 1997, the authors write.<\/p>\n

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Among 8-year-olds in the study, 18 percent of white girls and 43 percent of black girls had entered puberty – an increase from around 11 percent of white girls from 1997, but the same as black girls in that year.<\/p>\n

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Puberty coming earlier for U.S. girls: study | Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why? Most likely because they are overweight. 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