Yes, and Jennifer Luke's research on fluoride and the pineal gland shows that fluoride affects the production of melatonin thereby affecting estrogen production and development.

This topic has been a very hot topic at our home.  We found one pubic hair on my 9 year old daughter and I didn't make a big deal about it to her, but holy cow did we make some huge changes in our house and the first thing to go was the regular toothpaste! We also purchased a water distiller and we're getting out more to move our bodies - even on the freezing cold days of winter!  We didn't eat out much before, but now we don't do it at all.  She also gave up sweets for Lent and that has made a change physical change with her as well.  At school the tuition covers lunch and I think she's been eating more junk then she is letting on.  We have requested that the school make changes but they won't.  We pack her lunch on "Poor Food Choice Days" and that has made a small difference...it makes me feel better.  Her concentration level has also improved and she's taking more vit's too.  She is not fat or over weight per our physician she just has some belly fat and she always has had this.  She does not have breast development either and her doctor said that one pubic hair doesn't always mean puberty has started.  Has anyone heard of this kind of situation or do you think she may be developing too?  If anyone has any ideas on how to help please let me know.  OH, we also only purchase and serve organic meat and veggies now too.  I also need some ideas on how to keep the kids moving in the winter - we don't have snow here it's just cold.

Sally Fallon of the Westin A Price foundation says "We used to be a nation of orphanages, now we are a nation of fertility clinics". I think it is pretty safe to say our lack of nutrition is bringing our species to a slow, if not end. Dr Potters cats showed that within the 3rd or 4th generation of poor nutrition, they could no longer reproduce.

Dr. Pottenger's study was a very interesting one- but it's highly likely that it wasn't "just" malnutrition caused by cooked food that made the cats so sick and unable to reproduce but specifically a lack of taurine.  I found this interesting idea here:  www.beyondveg.com/index.shtml  Sorry I can't remember the exact article but I bet you'll enjoy poking around trying to find it!  

Soy is a phytoestrogen.  It is not the same as the potent xenoestrogens which come from petrochemicals or toxic hormone disrupting heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) that disrupt the endocrine systems of wildlife, mammals, including humans, even cell cultures (in laboratories). You can avoid eating soy and animals fed soy.  But, you'll be hard pressed to avoiding BpA which enters our body through our skin, lungs, foods, and water.

Epoxy of bisphenol A [BpA] is made into polycarbonate plastic.  Polycarbonate plastic is what holds five gallon bottles of water; sports drinks containers, baby bottles. "Many [babies] are fed milk in polycarbonate bottles which have been warmed in water or microwaved. Heat increases the rate of BPA leaching. Baby formula can be another source of BPA because of leaching from the cans in which it is sold."

BpA lines cans which contain food or liquid; it may be an "inert" ingredient in synthetic pest controls.

There are a growing number of scientific studies on this chemical both in the USA and all over the world.  And, the Centers for Disease Control has identified this chemical in over 95 percent of the people of North America.

You can avoid eating meat, and soy, but can you avoid BpA?

http://tinyurl.com/yvpmza

"A new analysis by the CDC indicates that many Americans are exposed to bisphenol A at levels above the current safety threshold set by the EPA based upon decades-old data. These levels are significantly higher than those sufficient to cause a wide array of health effects in animals following exposure in the womb..."  MORE AT:

http://tinyurl.com/2r5bge

The reason girls have puberty early is lack of nutrition. The body wants to make a baby while it still can. I read long ago that the reason America girs had puberty earlier than Asian girls was we got more nutrition. But the opposite is true.

Bob

Raw milk can be allowed to sour before it is drunk, which removes most of the lactose (you can't do that with pasteurized milk).

I'd agree that milk logically is intended for the species it came from, but keep in mind, people have been drinking milk for thousands of years!  

I don't think it damaged our ancestors to any great extent. Shouldn't we reasonably narrow our search for the cause of early puberty to the factors that existed shortly before and during the discovery of the early puberty phenomena?

That being said, I wonder how much man has changed the genome of our bovine friends over the course of history?