What Happens in Childhood Does to Adult Health

Nadine Burke Harris traces a discovery that began not in a lab but in a weight-loss clinic, where patients kept quitting the moment treatment worked. The question "what happened that year?" revealed a pattern: for some, weight was the solution, not the problem. The ACE score that emerged predicts population trends with striking clarity, yet when tested in Britain and New Zealand, it performed barely better than a coin flip for individuals. This book maps both the power and the limits of that number.

You'll learn:

- Why the dose-response curve shows no safe threshold

- How memory distorts childhood recall decades later

- What the "twenty years less" headline actually measured