[blparent] Health Food Question

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Growth hormones are given to dairy cows to increase milk production, but 
they can lead to early puberty, particularly in little girls.  A good friend 
of mine started noticing her daughter getting body hair at about six or 
seven, and her doctor said that it was likely because of growth hormones in 
milk.  I've always been careful to buy milk that is free of growth hormones, 
but I didn't recognize the "rBST free" wording for the labels.  It's been 
popping up on yogurt containers lately.

Jo Elizabeth

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 8:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Health Food Question

> And the answer was
>
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> Thanks.  I did try, but maybe I didn't enter it right.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of
> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all 
> of
> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>
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>> have you tried googling it? I did and came up with this simple
>> explanation.
>> http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-rbst-free-mean.htm
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>> On May 18, 2012, at 2:22 PM, Jo Elizabeth Pinto wrote:
>>
>>> Okay, for all of you crunchies out there, I've been seeing "rBST
>>> free" on yogurt labels in particular lately.  Does anybody know what 
>>> that
> means?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Jo Elizabeth
>>>
>>> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
>>> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and
>>> tolerant of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you
>>> will have been all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943,
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