Re: India: Three Year Old Runs Marathon Distances


"deowll" <deowll@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Jois" <firstjois@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > "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
> >> >> news:yNvef.1257$cd1.1223@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> >> >>
> >> >>> 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.
> >>
> > [snip]
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> On this kid it would have been more like 65 at age 9.
>
That has got to be unusual. Particularly since red-heads are usually found
in north western Europe and should be taller and thinner - 65 lbs is bitsy.

Jois


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