Daddyssillypuppy t1_ja2iq78 wrote
Reply to comment by theprozacfairy in Unpredictable childhood environments linked to food addiction in adulthood by chrisdh79
The 9 ACEs included are just the most common occurring adverse childhood experiences that they studied. It's very common to witness your mum being abused versus having a sibling die after prolonged medical care.
The ACE list is not meant to be an exhaustive list of all the bad things that happen in childhood that cause issues later in life. Just the 9 most common ones amongst the study participants.
theprozacfairy t1_ja47c5c wrote
Do you have a source on that? It’s not even mentioned in my public health textbooks. Just that these are childhood traumas that still affect you later in life. You’d think there wouldn’t be that 5 year age restriction on sexual abuse, in that case, in order to cast a wider net.
But given that ACE is just the most common, I would still rather obesity and food addiction are studied beyond just ACE scores. There could be a lot of specific factors to obesity outside their scope.
Daddyssillypuppy t1_ja69is9 wrote
The source was the original scientific journal article mentioning ACE scores.
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