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by outsidetheparty 1495 days ago
I had distinct memories of HGH in milk having been identified as the cause of this, but apparently that has been disproven: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/health/the-claim-hormones...

It's a bit startling how quickly it seems to be advancing, though: this 2005 article is saying girls were becoming pubescent "between 9 and 10, roughly a year early". It's only taken a couple decades for that to have turned into "...mostly of girls who were developing breasts at 7 or 8 years old" and "as early as 6 and 7"