Whats causing early puberty?
No one could taste the additive in their hamburgers or milkshakes. They couldn’t see it or smell it. And never in their worst nightmares could they guess what was lurking in their meat and dairy products. The year was 1973, the place Michigan. The contaminant was a fire retardant, laced with polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) that got accidentally mixed into cattle feed instead of a nutritional supplement. Roughly 4,000 people were exposed. Decades after one of the largest food contamination incidents in American history, the health effects are still not known. But according to a new study, one of the scariest ramifications of the poisoning has been for girls who were exposed in utero and through breastfeeding. They started menstruating at an average of 11.6 years old — a full year earlier than others who were not as highly exposed. This finding, the first in an ongoing study at Emory University that looks at the possible reproductive effects of the chemical exposure on women, provides on
