Pregnant 10 year old

[Rinn]

Weiila’s quote wins. It is awesome.

Curtis: the age of pregnancy has nothing to do with saturated fats, manufactured/processed food etc… So whoever told you that information is probably one of those pseudo environmental pro natural morons who’s full of shit and knows nothing about actual biology.

Having said that, fat DOES play a role in the age of menarche (I can never spell this word right), which is the age at which you get your first period. Hormonal changes are associated with body composition. Your brain has a variety of ways to measure body composition and ultimately, sexual maturation in girls is strongly pushed forward by food signals. Note that this has nothing to do with what _kinds_of food other than specific fat, carbohydrate and protein disposition.

If you want more information on the specifics of that, read these paragraphs:

There are essentially 2 important food signals: leptin and insulin. If you have no leptin, you make no GnRH in your brain. If you make no GnRH, you make no FSH/LH. FSH is “Follicular Stimulating Hormone”. This means it stimulates the ovaries to make follicles mature eggs for ovulation. Women menstruate when the egg is not fertilized and the cycle of making a new egg mature repeats. The simple point is, if you have no fat, you make no leptin. If you have enough fat, you have enough leptin. Modern advances have made it such that people are better nourished and face fewer problems than previous generations. Nutrition and other things have made it so that younger and younger girls reached menarche because of a balance between genetics (potential age of menarche) and environmental factors (nutrition leading to a specific hormonal mix and body composition). You should be aware that when you were in 4th, 5th grades, there should’ve been 1-2 girls in your classes that were wearing pads and developing secondary sexual characteristics.

The other signal is insulin. Insulin you might hear is the hormone diabetics have issues with. It plays a big role in glucose (sugar) control, but it also has other effects on tissues all over the body and the part of your brain that makes FSH needs insulin signals to make FSH in response to GnRH.

Now to reward those of you who read these brief paragraphs, I’ll tell you a little story. Many of you have been through high school and have seen those super thin girls. Often, aside from any potential eating disorder they might have, they might be athletic to support their low body mass index. You also might’ve noticed that those girls have underdeveloped secondary sexual characteristics (brests, hips - ie they don’t have a bottle shape, they’re T shaped like a boy). Here’s the kicker, if you don’t develop those secondary sexual traits during puberty, you never will! So those girls will be breast-less and hip-less for the rest of their lives because their not being fat enough threw their whole homonal cycles out of whack. If you’re not fat enough, you don’t make GnRH. You don’t make GnRH, then you don’t make FSH. If you don’t make FSH you won’t ovulate (thus these girls tend to not have their first periods til they’re in their mid to late teens - if). If you don’t ovulate, you don’t produce the right amounts of estrogen and progesterone because those are made by the egg. (Actually, some estrongen is made from androgens, but they don’t have any fat, so they can’t make any estrogen anyway - btw fat boys grow breasts because their testosterone is converted to estrogen in the same process). To be fair, fat girls are their own birth control pills because having too much fat will also throw your cycle out of whack.

If you’ve ever been in the sac with one of these thin girls, aside from noticing their obvious lack of breasts and hips, you’ll notice they produce a noticeable amount of hair from the androgens they tend to have too much of.

So basically, this explains the almost the entire female population of Japan.

[Wilfredo_Martinez]

One thing I should point out, in relation to the cases I mentioned above, is that there seems to be a climate of fear about contacting Social Services around here.

You see, a few years ago there were a rash of spousal abuse cases here. The laws then thoughened up (though whether it was a local or American initiative, I do not know) and many people were arrested for beating their wives or abusing their kids.

But this seems to have had the reverse effect that was expected… people became afraid of contacting Social Services; they were afraid that their loved ones would be arrested over minor transgressions (and even in serious cases, they were more afraid of their loved ones going to jail, than they were about the harm they did.) For example, my sister refrains from scolding her child in public, and when I babysit her son, insists that I keep the front door open so people won’t assume I’m molesting him (!)

Now, this is just an impression I’ve gotten from people’s comments. I don’t have access to statistics that prove it. But it would help to explain why some people know of abuses yet keep quiet about them.

[Ren]

So basically, this explains the almost the entire female population of Japan.

No, I’m guessing they (the japanese) actually have hormones in excess. Which could explain why it’s a country of perverts.

[Sinistral]

Everyone’s a perv so I don’t think ren’s point is valid. Besides, if people wanted to jump each other so much they wouldn’t have such an abysmal birth rate. Japan has its own cultural norms, as do other places. Let’s not forget, the internet is for porn.

[Ren]

It was a joke, you know =p Anyway, the porn part is quote worthy.

[Curtis]

Its probably because, at least previously, the Japanese had very light diets. I’m not sure on this, but I suspect there was probably particular emphasis on girls to limit their food intake. Thats the way it was in Asia for quite some time, and habits die hard.

[Rinn]

Sarcasm is wasted on you people.

[Yar_Kramer]

There’s no higher percentage of perverts in Japan than in USA, they just admit it.

[Dragon_Tear]

o_O Sick. People getting used to news like this: even sicker. -_-;