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our problems with kids’ lives and with our own lives have arisen because we have completely missed the importance of affection. We thought it was just something nice that parents did. But in fact, it’s the key to all mental health, intelligence and functioning as a human being. If someone is a great human being, it can only mean one thing. They were loved.
— Jan 24, 2026 02:13AM
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High levels of stress hormones tend to increase the secretion of leptin, the hormone that manages appetite and food intake. They also affect the propensity of the foetus to store fat around the tummy, in the part of the body between the intestines and the abdominal wall – increasing his chances of middle- aged spread or a ‘pot belly’, which has been compared to a camel’s hump
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In fact, a whole cluster of important emotional regulators are beginning to be established before the baby is even born. Neurotransmitter systems such as serotonin and dopamine systems have already started to be programmed, in a way that may or may not be reversible
