The ACEs Study

Shirley J. Davis
Nov 4 · 7 min read
Photo by Kat J on Unsplash

In the early 1990s, a physician named Vincent Felitti who worked for Kaiser Permanente in San Diego asked a patient who had lost a great deal of weight in a weight loss program why they had dropped out.

The answer given stunned Dr. Felitti.

That person and many of the other patients in the program that Dr. Felitti interviewed individually expressed that they believed the weight loss made them feel too…

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Shirley J. Davis

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