On the June 4th edition of Your Call, we'll have a conversation about why girls are entering puberty earlier than ever before? We’ll talk with Doctors Louise Greenspan and Julianna Deardorff, authors of The New Puberty: How to Navigate Early Development in Today's Girls. Just a generation ago, fewer than 5 percent of girls started puberty before the age of 8; today that percentage has more than doubled. Why is this happening, and what can we do to help girls through this major transition? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar, and you.
Guests:
Dr. Louise Greenspan is a pediatric endocrinologist, focusing on puberty, who works at Kaiser Permanente and is on the faculty at UC San Francisco
Dr. Julianna Deardorff is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in adolescent health and an associate professor at UC Berkeley.
Web Resources:
The NY Times: Puberty Before Age 10: The New ‘Normal’?
Huffington Post: Girls’ Early Puberty: What Causes it, and How to Avoid It
NPR: How Girls Are Developing Earlier in an Age of ‘New Puberty’
EWG: Dirty Dozen List of Endrocrine-Disruptors
NBC News: Obesity Linked to Early Puberty in Girls, Study Finds
The Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health: The CHAMACOS Study