Now , I can already imagine a number of people are thinking , oh , this must re relate to the obesity crisis . And indeed , there is a crisis of obesity , obesity , uh is something that is causing all sorts of um problems with people's health at various levels . Brain and body and that is far more frequent today than it was even 20 years ago .
So all of these data have borne out over and over again regardless of location in the world , which is important because when you start to think about the obesity crisis , you could say , well , that's mainly in developed countries , believe it or not , or perhaps not surprisingly . And maybe it has to do with the obesity crisis . And yet , I don't think we can conclude that at all , something is happening .
So many people believe that one of the reasons that puberty is happening earlier and earlier in females is because of the accumulation of more body fat at younger ages than was observed 30 or 40 certainly 100 years ago . Now , I can already imagine a number of people are thinking , oh , this must re relate to the obesity crisis . And indeed , there is a crisis of obesity , obesity , uh is something that is causing all sorts of um problems with people's health at various levels .
Uh By 1940 it was down to 13.5 years old . So all of these data have borne out over and over again regardless of location in the world , which is important because when you start to think about the obesity crisis , you could say , well , that's mainly in developed countries , believe it or not , or perhaps not surprisingly . And maybe it has to do with the obesity crisis .
Brain and body and that is far more frequent today than it was even 20 years ago . So it is indeed a crisis because it has enormous detrimental effects for so many aspects of , of uh brain and body health and longevity . But this whole process of thinking about body fat signaling leapt into the hypothalamus and the onset of puberty doesn't necessarily have to do with the obesity crisis .
