Posted on 06/03/2023 6:02:34 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Puberty often begins early for children who are obese. Now, a team of scientists offers what may be a partial explanation.
Early puberty, also known as precocious puberty, can leave children with psychological and social problems, as well as causing them to be shorter than they would otherwise be.
The more body fat a child has, the greater their likelihood of beginning puberty at an earlier age.
Professor Rewitz and the research team tested their hypothesis by putting fruit fly larvae on a fatty diet of cholesterol-packed foods.
"We observed that larvae on the cholesterol diet consistently grew faster and entered puberty sooner. It turned out that the increase of cholesterol stored in the fruit flies' body fat and support cells in the brain increases the release of growth hormones that cause the animals to grow faster. Growth and size is a signal to the body for when to trigger puberty," says Kim Rewitz.
"What we've found is that the amount of cholesterol stored in body fat plays an important role in this process. At a certain point, the system then sends a signal to the brain centers that triggers maturation by producing steroid hormones. In humans, these correspond to testosterone and estrogen," says Kim Rewitz.
However, it also means that if the amount of stored cholesterol increases, the organism can actually fail to estimate its overall size accurately, so that it hits the critical weight checkpoint earlier than it normally would.
"Because overweight children have more body fat, they will probably also have stored more cholesterol at an earlier point in their development. So, if our assumption that the same mechanism exists in humans holds true, it could help to explain early puberty in obese children," says the researcher.
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child .... fruit fly ..hmmm
does that sound right to you?
those are not buds... theyre fat rolls with nipples!
ITS THE HFCS.........
They are dying to remove meat from the common man’s diet.
No but being overweight for girls sure does. Fat mimics estrogen in the body.
processed seed oils coat everything inside us and muck it up
they have been poisoning our food with processed seed oils
butter is better
grass-fed beef is better than chicken/pork
they marketed “Crisco” as a food product, when it was manufactured for a totally different purpose whose market didn’t make a profit $$$$$
https://www.bitchute.com/video/K7jWBMEsH3gg/
and, another short video describing the processing of seed oils...
https://www.bitchute.com/video/EJcomS5ORpiG/
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