Paul Metz posted:Fascinating, dreadfully important question ;-D
Not easy to address: "Do people self-medicate their emotional distress resulting from ACEs using food?" Deceptively simple, but ..
Guess you're familiar with the general literature on self-medication (I remember a number of studies just addressing use of opiates as emotional self-medication in the journal Addiction a few years ago)?
Sfaik the conclusion is that there're so many different factors that must be considered for any one factor to be "the" factor; and you'd also be aware that if one does a google scholar search using "diabetes etiology coping "adverse childhood experiences"" one comes up with over 500 citations to evaluate -- just published since 2017. So, you're asking if anyone's been lucky enough to come up with the handful of studies that have shown ACEs to be overwhelmingly significant in demonstrating that poor self-care through poor dietary control results in diabetes -- "sensible conclusion" (so long as poor dietary control in and of itself produces diabetes??? I know a lot of people with diabetes would challenge that).
Well, I'm sorry, but the only work I know of is reviewed in the attached paper (mentioning Tamayo, 2010), but the topic is fascinating and I've marked it to follow -- please let me know what other material you find --- I wish you every bit of luck, not an easy topic to research :-D
fwiw you might find some other articles of interest on this list,
Thanks Paul. I appreciate your support and thoughts on this. Not a simple area to get to the bottom of as you acknowledge. I will let you know if I find anything noteworthy. Best wishes. Warren