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Does my grandfather's experience influence his grandchildren's phobias? A new discipline focusing on the causes of health and illness is now proving that echoes of events, influences, and experiences from childhood resonate even in the farthest corridors of life in middle age and old age. Epidemiologist David Barker has begun to explore this direction in research, discovering that inadequate nutrition during fetal development, manifesting as poor growth and low birth weight, may have a causal connection to the development of coronary artery disease several decades later. It turns out that diseases previously attributed only to the late stages of adulthood—cardiovascular diseases, which still claim too many lives today—have their origins in risk factors that affected the fetus during the prenatal period and the child in the first few years of life. In other words, the influence of what happened in childhood persists throughout life.
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Author: Boyce W. Thomas
Publication date: June 19, 2019
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství Triton s.r.o.
Genres: Health, weight loss, and sports, Medicine and healthcare, Books, Non-fiction literature, Specialized and technical literature
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 404
ISBN/EAN: 9788075536914