One of the biggest public health discoveries of all time has led us to understand the impact that early childhood experiences have on lifelong health.
This research is called the Adverse Childhood Experiences, or ACE, study, and it confirms with certainty that our experiences as children have a profound impact on our physical, mental and social health.
In the 1990s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention partnered with the Kaiser Permanente Health System to look at health data related to more than 17,000 of Kaiser’s members. The age range of the survey participants was 19 to 94. The researchers gathered information on all aspects of their lives -- from their experiences as children to their mental health status, substance use, disease risks and disabilities. What they discovered is changing how we look at lifelong health and well-being.
[For more of this story, written by Melanie Reynolds, go to http://helenair.com/lifestyles...24-8a76c4b8be15.html]
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