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The government wants to tackle #obesity.
Lots of commentary on the poor food choices overweight people make & how to change it.
Here’s a little bit of information that not many people know.
The #ACES study came about as an unintended consequence of a weight-loss program
Lots of commentary on the poor food choices overweight people make & how to change it.
Here’s a little bit of information that not many people know.
The #ACES study came about as an unintended consequence of a weight-loss program
This is the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study, initiated jointly by the Kaiser Permanente HMO in California and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1995–1997.
The study, by Vincent Felitti, the founder of Kaiser Permanente's Department of Preventive Medicine, demonstrates a correlation between childhood maltreatment and later-life medical illnesses and premature death.
