Community talks stress, traumatic experiences [FDLReporter.com]

Samantha Sangenito 11/14/164:00 AM

What is considered to be the most unaddressed public health crisis in the nation today was discovered about 30 years ago in San Diego.

Dr. Vincent Felitti was running an obesity clinic in the city. He realized many of his patients gained weight abruptly at points throughout their childhood, instead of gaining a little weight at a time. In speaking with his patients about their past, he realized over half of them experienced traumatic events as a child. In fact, 55 percent of his patients had been sexually abused.

[For more of this story, written by Madeline Zukowski, go to http://www.fdlreporter.com/sto...xperiences/93654010/]

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