Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100809:14:22:00
>> why is it happening? >> you mentioned obesity and that's a theory because the more fat you have the theory is that fat exuding estrogen, and there are also plenty of skinny girls hitting puberty early. that can't explain it all. there are theorys that hormones in food cause our girls to hit puberty earlier and chemicals in food packaging, and in some ways you might say, so, what does it matter? one of the issues with that is that girls who hit puberty earlier are shown to have higher rates of breast cancer later in life. it's not a. >> thing to hit puberty at age 7. >> what can parents do? ...
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