How does your childhood impact the food you crave or choose to eat? Beyond the effect of the culture you were raised in, could an event in your infancy make you eat differently today?
According to Brie Reid, a researcher at Northeastern University, acute stress experienced within the first two years of life — stress like malnourishment, neglect or caregiver separation — has a marked correlation with the dietary choices people make in their late teens and early 20s. Specifically, those who had experienced extreme stress in their earliest years were far more likely to adopt a highly inflammatory diet than those who had not.
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