What foods can cause early puberty?

Now our living standards are getting higher and higher, and the quality of diet is getting better and better. Many parents are particularly fond of their children and will give their children whatever they want to eat. Parents think that many foods are both replenishing and nutritious, and there is nothing wrong with children eating some. However, most foods now contain additives and preservatives. Eating them for a long time will cause precocious puberty. So what foods can easily cause precocious puberty!

The following foods are most likely to cause precocious puberty in children.

Daily diet:

1. Early-maturing animals and poultry, especially poultry necks

The vast majority of poultry sold on the market today are fed with feed mixed with rapid growth agents. The residues of "ripening agents" in poultry meat are mainly concentrated in the glands in the head and neck of poultry. Therefore, eating the necks of chickens, ducks, and geese becomes a high-risk behavior of "promoting precocious maturity."

2. Off-season vegetables and fruits

Strawberries, grapes, watermelons, tomatoes, etc. in winter, and pears, apples, oranges, and peaches that are available early in late spring, are almost all out of season or ripen early with the help of "ripening agents" and must be avoided when feeding them to young children.

3. Fast food and fried foods

Especially fried chicken, French fries and potato chips, the high calories will be converted into excess fat in children's bodies, causing endocrine disorders and leading to precocious puberty; moreover, after repeated heating and use, the high temperature will cause it to oxidize and denature, which is also one of the causes of "precocious puberty". Children who visit fast food restaurants more than twice a week and frequently eat fried and puffed foods are 2.5 times more likely to suffer from precocious puberty than normal children.

Health Products:

The use of health care products. Now that everyone has a child, everyone may pay more attention to health care products, hoping that the child will grow taller, or stronger, and get sick less often. "Congenital deficiencies can be supplemented later in life." Nowadays, parents are particularly worried about their babies being ruined by others, so the food they eat is becoming more and more refined, the supplements are becoming more and more advanced, and some health care products for the elderly are used on their children. For example, many animal colostrums, silkworm pupae, and royal jelly contain relatively high levels of estrogen, and thus can be used to introduce exogenous estrogen into the body, leading to precocious puberty.

1. Tonic foods that can be used as medicine

Including Cordyceps sinensis, ginseng, dried longan, dried lychee, astragalus, adenophora, etc. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that the more nourishing the medicinal food is, the more likely it is to change the child’s normal endocrine environment, causing an imbalance in his or her physical and mental development.

2. Some oral liquids for children

Many supplements and oral liquids targeting the children's market that claim to help them "grow taller and stronger" contain hormone ingredients. These hormones make children grow taller and stronger than other children of the same age when they are five or six years old, and their bone age has reached 8 or 10 years old. However, when the child enters the normal development stage, the growth has stopped.

3. Excessive zinc supplementation, protein powder and other supplements.

Pediatric endocrinologists believe that children should not take supplements because many children suffer from precocious puberty due to their diet. Therefore, experts remind parents that healthy children can achieve good growth and development as long as they have a normal diet and exercise regularly. For children in puberty, girls aged 6-8 and boys aged 7-10, be careful not to abuse supplements for a long time.

Nowadays, many foods can cause precocious puberty. The diets and a large number of supplements sold in supermarkets are the main causes of children's precocious puberty. Parents should not think that their children's precocious puberty is just that they develop faster than others. Precocious puberty will cause children to not grow tall and will have a great impact on their bodies.