Interesting article, GUEST. Thanks!

What I've heard about commercial chicken-farming (in North America, anyway) is that the birds, like cattle etc., are fed steroid hormones to make them grow faster. Those same hormones when eaten by humans cause fatigue, among other less desirable side-effects -- like interfering with the normal growth of children.

I've always wondered if this were true. Why DO children seem so much bigger these days? For the last 20 years I've noticed quite a difference between my students and what I remember of "standard size" for kids while I was growing up in the 60's/70's. A lot more of them have problems with overweight, too. Too much junk food/computers/TV, and not enough sports?
(Don't want to blame it on the piano lessons - most of them don't practice enough anyway!) Hmmmmmm

daylia