Here's To Your Health

[jerry]

Aw shucks, Kim; you could put on fifteen pounds and still be slimmer than most.

[sara]

Dec 31, 2009 8:14:47 GMT -5 jerry said:

Some of the meat we eat was raised with growth hormones and other abnormal stuff. They think that's why so many teenagers, particularly girls, reach puberty several years earlier than others. Allegedly, a lot of these kids frequently ate fast food burgers, etc.

I rarely eat fast food anymore, maybe a Jack's burger once a month or less, and never a Big Mac. Nor do I eat french fries except for the frozen shoestrings I bake in my convection

The reason the experts point out more girls as reaching puberty at a specific age is because girls have a particular "marker" for puberty that boys don't have. I'm sure boys have a marker too, but did you ever know a boy who would admit it?

I knew a girl who reached puberty in 1959 at the age of nine. I think it's because she was never going to be very tall. Or the other way around. I knew another girl who didn't reach puberty till age 16 in 1952. Anyway.

Did they put growth hormones and other abnormal stuff in beef or other consumables in the fifties? If they did, I imagine most of us had some. Our family's beef and pork almost all came from cattle and hogs we raised. But we were all just as abnormal as all the rest.