Many people ask, is the fruit that has used the ripening agent one of the reasons why many children grow up ahead of time?
The answer is: There is no evidence that there is any relationship between fruit ripening agents and children's precocity 。 Ethylene is a harmless gas, which will be naturally generated during the combustion of gas, and will also be naturally released when fruits such as apples are mature.
Indeed, the time of physical maturity of children is getting earlier and earlier, although their psychological maturity is getting later and later. The problem of physiological precocity can be analyzed from two aspects: food nutrition and environmental pollution.
first, The increase of animal food will promote sexual maturity 。 With the increase of protein and fat intake, the physiological maturity time of adolescents is constantly advanced. For example, in the United States today, more than a quarter of black girls At the age of 9, there were signs of puberty starting. A hundred years ago, there was no such thing. In China, young girls who eat more animal food usually mature about two years earlier than those who mainly eat plant food. All countries in the world have the same rule. As long as you eat more fish, eggs and milk, sexual maturity will be two or three years earlier, even if no hormones are added to these products.
Many people believe that it must be because estrogen is added in the process of animal feeding. However, even if animals do not eat any sex hormones, can they be completely free of sex hormones? Estrogen is naturally produced in women's bodies, as is the case with animals. Animal hormones are different from plant hormones, and they are biologically active to humans. Therefore, eating more animal food will bring more hormone intake. Nowadays, most of the animals are large-scale production, and most of the animals themselves are fattening animals, in which the hormone content is probably higher than that of the animals in the natural growth state.
At the same time, the increase of human adipose tissue itself promotes the production of estrogen. Women have more body fat, so the risk of increased hormone levels will increase. The obesity problem of children and adolescents is very serious now, which is not likely the result of eating more fruits, but more likely the result of too much animal food, too little exercise, and insufficient outdoor activities!
In addition, Environmental pollution will also bring about the feminization trend of animals 。 Many environmental pollutants have the characteristics of "environmental estrogens", such as dioxins in automobile exhaust and waste combustion gases. For example, in some places with serious pollution, the proportion of male and female births is prone to imbalance, and the proportion of female fish in river fish is increasing abnormally. No wonder fruits and ethephon are used for ripening.
People should be responsible for their own diet and lifestyle, and should not blame others for everything, especially natural products and farmers who produce them!
Why are some people healthy and others unhealthy in this polluted world, which also eats out of season fruits and vegetables? Why are some children fat and some healthy? The media should guide them to reflect on these issues.
