Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8249 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Girls Entering Puberty by the Age of Six - but are drugs the
Sexy Children
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Girls entering puberty by the age of six - but are drugs the answer?
Some girls now enter puberty as early as six - with toxic chemicals widely held to blame. But are new drugs to hold back the years really the right answer?:
Puberty is an unsettling stage in anyone's life, but if it happens at an age when you are still playing with dolls, it can be very worrying indeed.
That is exactly what happened to Lucia Reed. She was just seven when her periods started, an event which distanced Lucia from her classmates and led to unexplained medical examinations which terrified her.
'I felt completely alone and alienated, with this horrible secret,' she recalls 12 years later. 'I knew I was different from everyone else, but I didn't know what was happening.
'My mum had to tell the school, and they tried to make sure no one found out what was going on. Because of my periods, I was allowed to use a different loo from the other girls.
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8249 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Kroger Milk Will Go rbST Free By Early 2008
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Kroger Milk Will Go rbST Free By Early 2008
Supermarket to get rid of rbST-laden dairy products by early next year
Supermarket giant Kroger, with locations in the Southeast and Midwest, is in the process of pulling milk produced with the artificial growth hormone rbST (also known as rbGH) from its store shelves by February 2008.
The genetically engineered hormone is injected into cows for the purpose of boosting milk production. Although the FDA approved it for use in 1993, the hormone has not been without controversy. The genetically engineered growth hormone is known to cause harm to cows and may pose health risks to humans. Consumers have not been convinced of its safety and their demand for restaurants and retailers to provide organic milk only is on the rise.
Earlier in the year, Publix supermarkets replaced its store-brand dairy products (milk, cheese, yogurt, and ice cream) using milk from untreated cows only.
Other noted food service industry players such as Safeway, Chipotle and Starbucks, are taking an active part in reducing milk products produced with hormones too.
A step in the right direction, the growing attractiveness of the natural and organic foods movement is spurring on consumer awareness and demand for food free of antibiotics and hormones.
This hormone causes ~5x the milk production, but costs so much that it isn't significantly profitable for the farmers. As with athletes and steroids: Milk production becomes dependent on the continued use of this hormone once started. The teets become over used forming blisters, and cracks which let puss and blood along with the hormones into the milk.
Apparently Milk is Bad Also - Information on how homogenization causes poor health, alternatives to milk for recipes, etc.
