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...emphysema. The risk for depression is more than quadrupled. Although many of these outcomes could reflect the influences of genes and other environmental influences - beyond those occurring in childhood - the tight relationship between increasing ACE numbers and increasing health risks makes the role of child trauma clear. Dr. Jack Shonkoff, director of Harvard's Center on the Developing Child, calls the research "a tremendous contribution...
...Early adverse experience can disrupt the body's metabolic systems," says Shonkoff. "One of the cornerstones of biology is that our body's systems when they are young are reading the environment and establishing patterns to be maximally adaptive...
...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...
According to Shonkoff, the policy framework was developed at the urging of legislators...
...authors state that policies targeting early childhood development “can generate benefits to society that far exceed program costs,” provided they satisfy certain “effectiveness factors,” which, according to Shonkoff, “predict for us which programs influence positive outcomes for children and which will be less effective...