Is being fat slowing down or affecting puberty ?
No, your weight isn’t affecting your puberty – your genetics and environment are. If people in your family were “late bloomers” chances are, you will be too. Look at relatives from both your parents to see if one resembles you and ask them. (Of course anyone you ask will spread it around. I’ve yet to find family members who don’t gossip.) Since your question will probably get back to your Mom and Dad, you might as well ask them, right off the bat. Even though it’s embarrassing, parents have a wealth of information to share with you, however your development, genetics-wise, might go back to your great-great-great-grandpa/ma and no one in your family will have anything useful to tell you. Certain environmental factors are affecting puberty and development. Exposure to pesticides and growth hormones in beef, chicken and pork have accelerated puberty in many people. The chemicals in hair straighteners have accelerated puberty in many young African American females. So, if your parents serv
