{"id":21194,"date":"2010-08-10T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/girls_reach_puberty_earlier_raising_health_concerns\/"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T16:00:13","slug":"girls_reach_puberty_earlier_raising_health_concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21194","title":{"rendered":"Girls reach puberty earlier, raising health concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American girls are hitting puberty earlier than ever \u201d\u201d a change that puts them at higher risk for behavioral problems as adolescents and breast cancer as adults, a new study shows.<\/p>\n<p>About 15% of 1,239 girls studied showed the beginnings of breast development at age 7, according to an article in today&#8217;s Pediatrics. One in 10 white girls, twice as many as in a 1997 study, showed breast growth by that age, as did 23% of black girls and 15% of Hispanic girls.<\/p>\n<p>The median age of breast development fell from 10.9 years in 1991 to 9.9 in 2006, according to a Danish study published in Pediatrics last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/printedition\/news\/20100809\/1apuberty09_st.art.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American girls are hitting puberty earlier than ever \u201d\u201d a change that puts them at higher risk for behavioral problems as adolescents and breast cancer as adults, a new study shows. About 15% of 1,239 girls studied showed the beginnings<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21194\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,101,104,129,112,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-children","category-health-medicine","category-psychology","category-sexuality","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}