Photo via WLS Channel An eye-opening study profiled in the New York Times reveals that some girls in the United States are hitting puberty at abnormally early ages — sometimes at 7 or 8 years old. There are a number of suspected causes for this potentially dangerous trend, chief among them childhood obesity and exposure to chemicals. This gives us yet another reason to e… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Obesity, Chemical Exposure Causing Some Girls to Hit Puberty at Age 7, Study Finds
