Re: India: Three Year Old Runs Marathon Distances


"deowll" <deowll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Su Solomon" <susol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > On 17/11/05 2:25 AM, in article Xns97105FDF63C0prd@xxxxxxxxxxxx, "Philip
> > Deitiker" <Nopdeitik@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> In sci.anthropology.paleo, deowll created a message ID
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> >>
> >>> This feature has not be totally removed from Hss. The normal
> >> age for puberty
> >>> in girls seems to be somewhere between 8 and 16!
> >>
> >> Only because we inject hormones into chicken and we over feed
> >> our kids.
> >
> > Correction.
> >
> > This generation: overfeeds and under-exercises their little darlings.
> >
> > No hormone additives are allowed in Australian livestock for human
> > consumption and, we are, like you in the USA, experiencing an upswing in
> > obese kiddies and a lowering of the age at first menarche.
> >
>
> That doesn't clear things up for me. A skinny red head in the fifth grade
> angrily told me she hit puberty at 9 when I repeated what the Health book
of
> the time said about hitting it at about 11. She was 10 or 11 at the time.
> After that I did a little reading. I don't think the kid needs to be fat
nor
> flabby. It may be enough that they don't have to work hard and get a
> balanced diet but some of it is certainly genetic.
>
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Again, that is variation. There are studies that attach a certain weight to
menarche, 93 lbs maybe or 103 lbs? Doesn't have to be flabby or a fat kid,
just one who is well fed. Certainly the process has to have a genetic
component.

Jois


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