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The mother did not like to cook and so for dinner every night, she took her kids to McDonalds. The children ate hamburgers almost every night for most of their childhood. They also ate lots of French fries and drank gallons of Coke, all of which had lots of carbohydrates, sugar and fat in them. But the resulting thing that happened to these five kids showed up as they developed. When they were four or five years of age both the boys and the girls tended to be overweight, but tall and muscular for their age. They were all very active physically, so did not become morbidly obese, but would still be considered obese. When they reached 10, 11 and 12 years of age they began to grow even more than they had as children and were extraordinarily tall and heavy. The oldest girl was over six feet tall and had developed breasts by the time she was 12. She was taller than her father and much taller than her mother. She looked as if she were over 20, but still was a small child in her social and intellectual development. At 12, she was taken on a one-hour train ride to visit the sights in a city and when it was noon her (older) companion decided to stay in the city and tried to send her back home on the afternoon train, along the same route by herself, where her father would meet her at the home depot. But she refused; she was too frightened to travel by herself on the train, as she had never been anywhere alone in her life; so the companion had to travel back home with her, recalling that after all, she was only 12, even if she was twice as tall as she.
This girl and her siblings had eaten enough...
Eventually it may affect their health. It is a sure bet that most of the meat they ate had growth hormone in it, as meat and milk have been found to contain rBGH and other synthetic hormones (Zeranol, Trenbolone, and Melengestrol) designed to make cattle mature early. It is desirable for cattle to be taken to market earlier and to grow fatter than they usually would in order to produce more meat or milk per cow. The European community is examining the effects of animal growth hormones on human health and has banned all beef imported from the United States, because in the U.S. And Canada there is nothing being done about this (Raloff, p. 10).
With the incidence of obesity in children growing at a rapid rate over the last couple of decades, something must be happening to cause this epidemic besides the abundance of food, as some claim. There is plenty of evidence that the high rate of obesity is caused by the kinds of sugar-loaded, fatty foods the nation's children tend to eat and also, perhaps, by the hormones that is put in their food.
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Raloff, Janet. (2002). Hormones: Here's the Beef: environmental concerns reemerge over steroids given to livestock. Science News 161, no. 1, January 5, 2002.
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