Post by healthy11 on Feb 9, 2015 8:40:05 GMT -5
www.yahoo.com/health/7-year-olds-with-breakouts-why-the-face-of-acne-110533936237.html
Read the full article for more details, but among the findings:
"Louise Greenspan, a pediatric endocrinologist at Kaiser Permanente, and Julianna Deardorff, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, find it’s the national obesity epidemic and family stress that are the biggest driving forces behind girls getting earlier periods....
Aside from girls experiencing the accompanying body changes before they may be emotionally old enough to handle them, studies have also linked early puberty with later health risks like depression, breast cancer and substance addiction."
Read the full article for more details, but among the findings:
"Louise Greenspan, a pediatric endocrinologist at Kaiser Permanente, and Julianna Deardorff, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, find it’s the national obesity epidemic and family stress that are the biggest driving forces behind girls getting earlier periods....
Aside from girls experiencing the accompanying body changes before they may be emotionally old enough to handle them, studies have also linked early puberty with later health risks like depression, breast cancer and substance addiction."