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Baby Fat Fuels Early Puberty

Childhood obesity in the United States appeared to be causing girls to reach puberty at an earlier age for reasons that are not clear, a study said today.
The University of Michigan’s Mott Children’s Hospital studied 354 girls and found that those who were fatter at age 3 and gained weight over the next three years reached puberty, as defined by breast development, by age nine.  The study is in Pediatrics, The American Academy of Pediatrics’ journal.

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