Today's Shocking Study Finding comes to us from Pediatric Researchers at Boston Medical Center and appeared in the April 12th issue of the online version of the journal Pediatrics.
Key Findings:
Poverty influences a child's well-being through multiple environmental stressors ... remediable "material hardships" that may have direct physiologic impacts on children. These hardships include food insecurity (lack of access to enough healthful food for an active healthy life) housing insecurity (unstable or overcrowded housing) and energy insecurity (inability of families to afford consistent home heating or cooling).The researchers found that as scores on a cumulative index of the hardships increased in severity, the chances of young low- income children simultaneously experiencing normal growth, health, and development (which the investigators term "wellness") decreased ...... cumulative hardships--a diet of inadequate quality or quantity, temperature stress from lack of heat or cooling, and frequent moves or increased exposure to infectious disease and noise in crowded households--exert direct negative physiologic consequences on children.
So, when they are well fed and have a nice place to live children are often healthier.
Source: Physorg.com
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