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posted by martyb on Monday May 11 2015, @03:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the please-pass-the-tissues dept.

According to a story at International Business Times, growing up poor can have a range of consequences for a person’s status and future opportunities — and it can also make someone more likely to catch colds later in life, a new study shows. Writing in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity, Carnegie Mellon University psychologist Sheldon Cohen and colleagues say they’ve found a connection between childhood poverty and a middle age with more sniffles, coughs and sneezes.

"We have found initial evidence for a biological explanation of the importance of childhood experiences on adult health," Cohen said in a statement. "The association we found in young and midlife adults suggests why those raised by parents of relatively low socioeconomic status may be at increased risk for disease throughout adulthood."

http://www.ibtimes.com/poverty-childhood-makes-you-more-susceptible-colds-later-life-study-1452070

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday May 11 2015, @01:36PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday May 11 2015, @01:36PM (#181459) Homepage

    How about euthanizing all poor children and then sterilizing their parents?

    Bam, problem solved, and I get to keep my tax dollars. Use birth-control, you fucking animals!

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 11 2015, @11:56PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday May 11 2015, @11:56PM (#181706) Journal

    Where would all the pointy haired bosses and psychopaths recruit their plebes and peons? Can't have that.. ;-)

    Not that I think this would ever touch reality. But if poor people halted their baby production. There would be less people to oppress. And it would force changes in higher levels of the hierarchy, some of them may be unpleasant for them.