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
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.
Virtually none of the patients were fat as children and, while most overweight people gain pounds slowly over the years, they'd gained their weight abruptly, usually in response to a difficult life event.
The interviews revealed an unsettling pattern of childhood sexual abuse, trauma, family suicides, brutality, and other evidence of severely dysfunctional family relationships.
In a study of 286 obese people in the program, Felitti discovered half had been sexually abused as children. For these people, overeating and obesity weren't the central problems, but ATTEMPTED SOLUTIONS.
Food was an old, reliable friend that soothed and calmed them, while being fat protected them from a hostile world.
As a result of the #ACE study, childhood adversity and its lifetime effects on health and well-being are often cited as America's most important public health issue.

Link: psychotherapynetworker.org/blog/details/6…

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