To BB: The blacklist of "precocious puberty" foods
Including Cordyceps sinensis, ginseng, longan dry, lychee dry, Astragalus membranaceus, and Adenophora stricta, etc. Especially for people in Guangdong who like to make medicinal soups. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that the more tonic the medicinal soup is, the more it will change the normal endocrine environment of children, causing imbalance in physical and mental development.
Poultry meat, especially poultry neck
Nowadays, most of the poultry sold on the market are fed with feed mixed with rapid growth agents. The residue of "ripening agent" in poultry meat is mainly concentrated in the glands of the head and neck of the poultry. Therefore, eating duck neck or goose neck becomes a high-risk behavior for "precocious puberty."
Off-season vegetables and fruits
Strawberries, grapes, watermelons, tomatoes in winter, pears, apples, oranges, and peaches that hit the market earlier at the end of spring, are almost all helped by "growth promoters" to mature off-season or earlier. It's important to avoid feeding these to children under 10 years old.
Fried foods, especially fried chicken, French fries, and potato chips
Excessive heat will be converted into excess fat in children's bodies, causing endocrine disorders and leading to precocious puberty. Moreover, after repeated heating, the cooking oil oxidizes and deforms at high temperatures, which is also one of the reasons for triggering "precocious puberty." Children who visit fast-food restaurants more than twice a week and often eat fried snacks are 2.5 times more likely to experience "precocious puberty" compared to ordinary children.
Oral liquids claimed to make children "taller and stronger"
A considerable part of supplements and oral liquids targeting the children's market contain hormone components. These hormones make children grow taller and stronger than their peers at the age of 5 or 6 because they may have quietly started developing, with their bone age reaching 8 or 10 years old. However, when children enter the normal developmental stage, they may not grow anymore. Experts point out that children with precocious puberty will be about 10-15 centimeters shorter than their peers during adolescence.
How to distinguish between "false precocious puberty" and true precocious puberty
When parents bathe with their children, if they find signs of "secondary sexual characteristics," don't panic. Certain "false precocious puberty" is often caused by phase fluctuations in endocrine levels, without the child's bone age advancing, commonly referred to as "false precocious puberty." As long as attention is paid to dietary control and the child is not exposed to "erotic" audiovisual works, false precocious puberty does not necessarily develop into true precocious puberty, and no injections or medications are needed.
Once an X-ray reveals advanced bone age, it can be diagnosed as "precocious puberty." As parents, you should not show excessive worry in front of the child. You should gently tell the child that everyone will develop, and development is a good thing that can make people smarter, stronger, and taller, but early development might bring some trouble. "Are you willing to eat fewer fried chicken legs and exercise well to grow up like your classmates?"
If parents do not treat "precocious puberty" as a terrible disaster, the child will not develop excessive fear, and their personality won't become introverted. Dietary control plans will also be easier to follow.