Research at the University of California, Berkeley has thrown up some unexpected results. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/201709.php Julianna Deardorff, UC Berkeley assistant professor of maternal and child health, and lead study author, said: "The age at which girls are reaching puberty has been trending downward in recent decades, but much of the attention has focused on increased body weight as the primary culprit. While overweight and obesity alter the timing of girls' puberty, those factors don't explain all of the variance in pubertal timing. The results from our study suggest that familial and contextual factors - independent of body mass index - have an important effect on girls' pubertal timing." Bay Area BCERC's principal investigator Dr. Robert Hiatt, UCSF professor and co-chair of epidemiology and biostatistics, and director of population science at the campus's Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, said: "The hunt for ...
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