Mom's Coffee (and Tea, and Kombucha, and...) Tied to Kid's Height
A bit shorter with high caffeine intake, but how important is it?
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A bit shorter with high caffeine intake, but how important is it?
Exposure to caffeine in the womb, even in small amounts, may lead to shorter height in childhood, suggests an analysis by National Institutes of Health researchers. Children of women with low caffeine intake during pregnancy were slightly shorter than their peers born to women who consumed no caffeine while pregnant.
Adverse childhood experiences can be clustered into patterns, and some of these patterns are associated with an increased risk for premature mortality in adulthood.
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can be clustered into patterns, and some of these patterns are associated with an increased risk for premature mortality in adulthood.
Poverty, combined with other types of adversity in early childhood, is associated with greater chances of premature death in adulthood, compared to other adverse childhood experiences, according to a study of more than 46,000 people by researchers at the National Institutes of Health.