In the article by Susan Gilbert titled "Growth Hormone Use in Children Found Innfective in Large Study" The first line is very eye catching, as a means to lure the reader in. It starts out, "A LARGE study has cast strong doubt on the increasingly common practice of giving growth hormone injections to short children to help them reach an average height." Here are some other ways the writer supports this claim:
- children grew 2.4-2.7 inches less than expected (statistics)
- the hormone therapy can actually inhibit natural growth
- kids don't usually grow to the target height until 6 years after the therapy
There seems to be a lot of flaws in this study, unless the article just leaves out a lot details about the study.
That is crazy to think that they are doing that to children. Personally I think that it should be that persons choice, or at least their family. If someone wants to subject themselves to something like that knowing the side effects then why should we stop them.
ReplyDeleteWell it she sounds sensible to me. I'm assuming that you are for growth hormones
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