Except for that last part, this sounds like an argument for putting all
adolescents to work at hard labor on rations of bread and water!
(But then again, maybe that's the father of a pre-teen, rather than a
professor, talking!)
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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 16:52:47 -0500
From: Mike Scoles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A third-variable problem? The following is from PubMed:
"Evidence is presented that undernutrition and hard physical work can affect
the
natural fertility of populations, by the delay of menarche, a longer period
of
adolescent subfecundity, a longer birth interval and an earlier age of
menopause."
Frisch RE.
Body fat, menarche, fitness and fertility.
Hum Reprod 1987 Aug;2(6):521-33
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