For several years, many have been quick to attribute rising fast food consumption as the major factor causing rapid increases in childhood obesity. Now researchers at the University of North
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Boys in the United States appear to be entering puberty much earlier than in the past – a trend researchers caution may have important medical, psychosocial, public health and environmental