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In reply to the discussion: Boys Now Enter Puberty Younger, Study Suggests, but It’s Unclear Why [View all]Bohunk68
(1,364 posts)8. Very interesting.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least. After all, if females are developing earlier, why shouldn't males? Or maybe,not. Calls for more study, I would think. It would be easy to jump to a lot of conclusions and suspect a lot of reasons. I recall that for me, it was almost 14 before I achieved a **ahem** point and thought I was slower than my peers. That could've been because of a poor diet and the fact that I was also small for my age and didn't really start growing taller and heavier until I had entered the Navy at 17. So, are the young males today maturing more quickly? By casual observation, that may very well be so, but I have no proof.
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Because girls enter younger. I was a boy once... I followed the girls anywhere.
truthisfreedom
Oct 2012
#3
with any link that is remotely close to the subject to a peer review article this reply will
grantcart
Oct 2012
#43
Fat cells store estrogen, just like they store energy. Neither is used until the fat is burned.
sybylla
Oct 2012
#13
Well clearly it has to do with breastfeeding little circumcised boys at the Olive Garden.
grantcart
Oct 2012
#44
It's obviously the result of soy-based fake meat products being pushed by vegetarianists
slackmaster
Oct 2012
#47