High meat diet ‘linked to early periods’
In my book, God's Design for the Highly Healthy Teen, I discuss the disturbing phenomena of young girls having their periods at younger and younger ages. Researchers have postulated all sorts of reasons for the, but now a study suggests that girls who eat a lot of meat during childhood tend to start their periods earlier than others. UK researchers compared the diets of more than 3,000 12-year-old girls. They found high meat consumption at age three (over eight portions a week) and age seven (12 portions) was strongly linked with early periods. Here are the details from a BBC report: Writing in Public Health Nutrition, the researchers said a meat-rich diet might prepare the body for pregnancy, triggering an earlier puberty. During the 20th Century, the average age at which…