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...instance, a modern child's early life experience - in the womb and during the first five years, particularly - is constantly stressful, it would be incredibly energy-consuming, says Dr. Bruce Perry, senior fellow at the ChildTrauma Academy. "If your genes get the message that you are entering a stressful world, it makes complete adaptive sense to take the existing metabolism and tune it up to deposit fat and store energy to prepare for what the body is expecting will be a challenging and stressful life," he says...
Recently, scientists have discovered that these changes can themselves be passed down from one generation to the next - a burgeoning new area of study called epigenetics. Such research may have significant and long-term implications for the prevention of obesity, addiction and other illnesses related to early life stress. After all, reducing childhood exposure to trauma in one generation may further benefit that generation's children and grandchildren. (See 25 people who mattered...
...that the way we eat and the way we exercise, or do not exercise, is contributing to it. But it's a huge mistake to attribute it just to the need to close down fast-food restaurants and turn off the TV. There's important biology here early in life that needs attention," says Shonkoff...
...tried to stay a little more relaxed [than against Stanford], and it wasn’t very easy,” he said. “I’ve never really had a game with more support than this game in my entire life. That made me real nervous...
...maintain my innocence regarding this violation,” Galluccio wrote in his letter. “I assure you I have kept faith with the court, the Senate, my family and myself with my decision in early October to eliminate alcohol from my life...