A 10-year Danish study finds puberty is starting earlier in kids, linking the shift to pregnancy, weight, stress, and genetics.

Few topics provoke as much concern as the perception that puberty is beginning earlier than ever. While synthetic ...

A new Danish study compiles 10 years of research from one of the world's largest and most detailed puberty cohorts and points to three main conclusions: puberty is occurring earlier; genes, pregnancy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Precocious puberty is when signs of sexual maturity occur earlier than age 8 in a girl and age 9 in a boy. (Photo: Getty Images) ...

July 14 (UPI) --Sugar and artificial sweeteners might increase the risk of early puberty in children, a new study says. Sugar, aspartame (Equal), sucralose (Splenda) and glycyrrhizin (licorice root) ...

What was studied: Whether kids who eat certain sweeteners (like aspartame, sucralose, glycyrrhizin, and added sugar) may face a higher risk of early puberty — especially when they carry genes that ...

Tanner stages are a tool used by healthcare providers to evaluate development in puberty. They detail five specific stages of ...

In the first-ever genome-scale analysis of the puberty process in humans, researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah (U of U) outline distinct and critical changes to ...

How ongoing, age-appropriate conversations about bodies, intimacy, and consent build trust, safety, and lifelong confidence for children of all ages.

Every child goes through puberty, but not everyone experiences it at the same time. The average age that a child reaches sexual maturity differs between the genders: Girls experience puberty between 8 ...