Childhood trauma may contribute to teen weight problems

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Childhood trauma may contribute to teen weight problems

"I felt like I was seeing a lot of children who had experienced stress early in their lives later gain weight pretty rapidly" Dr. Julie Lumeng at the University of Michigan Medical School told Reuters Health. "There has been quite a bit of research looking at stress in the lives of adults leading to weight gain, but it has not been studied as much in children," said Lumeng, who led the new study. "We did this particular study because it looked at simply 'events' that had occurred in children's lives and then asked mothers to rate the events in terms of how much of an impact they had," Lumeng said. The mothers of 848 children enrolled in the study completed surveys when their children were 4, 9 and 11 years old.

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