THURSDAY, Oct. 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Puberty is the time when children’s bodies start to make hormones that lead to physical changes and signs of maturation. It prepares the body for ...

A sweeping review of 12 international cohort studies shows that heavier boys, especially those carrying excess weight after age six, reach key puberty milestones sooner, reshaping how parents and ...

A study recently published in Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology offers new insight into a long-standing puzzle in human development: why people with higher intelligence tend to reproduce later ...

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 ...