You may think these guys are a fraction young for the army but they are 18 and 21 respectively. Boys just don't seem to be entering puberty quite as young as they used to, do they? It's probably because they liked their fruit.

Environmental Health Perspectives reports that male school children exposed to the pesticide endosulfan showed delayed sexual maturity compared with similar children who were not exposed. The critical age is 10-19, which is hardly surprising because this is when physical sexual maturation in males occurs.

An estimated 1.4-2.2 million pounds of endosulfan is used in the United States on crops including squash, pecans, and strawberries each year. It has been banned in several countries, including Cambodia, Colombia, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Indonesia, and its use is severely restricted in at least 20 other countries.

The one bright light for US citizens is that aerial spraying has now been banned so that secondary contamination with the chemical is now limited.

If your boys want to grow into big stong men get them to wash their fruit.