As if raising girls wasn’t hard enough, now parents of young females are facing a growing phenomenon in the aspect of female child growth and development. Known, medically, as precocious puberty, many parents are struggling with the early onset of puberty related changes in their daughters. As parents, understanding the dynamics of precocious puberty, including ...
Not terribly long ago, my husband and I were driving alongside a local junior high school when we found ourselves stuck behind the stop sign of a crossing guard. The dismissal bell had just rung, and hundreds of kids were pouring out of the building and into the street. To my amazement, all the girls ...
Childhood obesity is an epidemic. This generation, for the first time in history, has a shorter predicted lifespan than their parents. Unfortunately, for many obese and overweight children, a shorter lifespan isn’t the only problem they’re facing. They also have to deal with serious mental and physical complications. Emotional and Mental Consequences When most people ...
The all too popular HCG diet has helped many people who struggle with weight loss lose weight, but do they know what harm they are really doing to their bodies? Probably not, a diet that asks someone to put a hormone only found in pregnant women into their body and then ingest only five hundred ...
Puberty is the time in a child’s life where the body starts to mature, moving them closer to adulthood. Hormone levels in the body control when puberty will occur and how long it will last. Puberty ages can run in the family, yet other factors can figure into the exact age as well. Girls: The ...
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