1. Tonifying foods that can be used medicinally. These include Cordyceps sinensis, ginseng, longan, dried lychee, Astragalus root, and Glehnia root. In particular, people from Guangdong enjoy making medicinal soups and stews. Traditional Chinese medicine points out that the more potent these medicinal foods, the more they can disrupt a child's normal endocrine environment, leading to an imbalance in physical and mental development.
2. Poultry meat, especially the necks. The vast majority of poultry sold on the market today is fed with feed containing rapid-growth agents. The residues of these "growth promoters" are mainly concentrated in the glands of the poultry's head and neck. Therefore, eating duck or goose necks is considered a high-risk behavior for "precocious puberty."
3. Off-season vegetables and fruits. Strawberries, grapes, watermelons, and tomatoes in the winter; and pears, apples, oranges, and peaches that appear in late spring are almost all ripened out of season or prematurely with the help of "growth promoters." These should be avoided for children under 10 years of age. [China Cuisine]
4. Fried foods. Especially fried chicken, french fries, and potato chips. The excessive calories in these foods are converted into excess fat in a child's body, triggering endocrine disorders and leading to precocious puberty. Moreover, when cooking oil is repeatedly heated, high temperatures cause it to oxidize and become denatured, which is another cause of "precocious puberty." Children who visit fast-food restaurants more than twice a week and frequently eat fried and puffed foods are 2.5 times more likely to experience "precocious puberty" than other children.
5. Oral liquids for children that claim to make them "taller and stronger." A significant portion of supplements and oral liquids marketed for children contain hormones. These hormones can cause children to appear taller, bigger, and stronger than their peers at age five or six, as their development may have already secretly begun, with their bone age reaching that of an 8 or 10-year-old. However, when these children enter the normal developmental stage, their growth may actually slow down. Experts point out that children with precocious puberty will be about 10 to 15 centimeters shorter than their peers when they reach adolescence.