From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 18:07:40 MDT
Vanessa Novaeris wrote:
> spike wrote:
> spike wrote:
> <<In fact, I am not surprised that humans are currently getting larger. We
> have figured out how to produce arbitrarily many calories, so we are in the
> process of bootstrapping ourselves to a larger size. Is evidence necessary to
> support this claim? ...Humans are getting bigger fast.>>
>
> You seem to be right & evidence is indeed everywhere. I don't have to look
> any further than my own siblings who each just celebrated birthdays- my 7
> year old sister is already about 4'4" (134 cm) & perhaps even more surprising
> is my 5 year old brother, not far behind at about 4 feet tall (126 cm). These
> kids are monsters! I worry a lot about what kinds of dreadful hormones may be
> in their milk but thats another topic.
Uh-huh. Time to check the amount of growth hormones consumed in
milk and dairy in this country. The US is the only developed
country I know of that allows using recombinant bovine growth
hormone in feeding its dairy cows. This stuff passes into our
milk supply. There is a fair amount of evidence that the age of
menarche for American females is dropping rapidly (on occassion,
as low as 3 years old). So large increases in size are not
necessarily benigh or without more prosaic causes.
- samantha
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