Long-Term Consequences of Early Environment: Growth, Development and the Lifespa

Long-term Consequences of Early EnvironmentGrowth, Development and the Lifespan Developmental Perspective\nAuthor(s): C. Jeya K. Henry, Stanley J. Ulijaszek\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521471084, 978-0521471084\nSynopsis\nThe early environment in which we grow up has profound, long lasting, and often irreversible consequences for us throughout our lives. Stresses due to under nutrition in early childhood can mean that in adulthood individuals are smaller, more prone to disease, and have a shorter life expectancy than those with normal diets. Disease and poor living conditions in infancy and childhood also have profound implications in adulthood. Whilst environmental effects on human growth and development are well documented, the long-term consequences due to processes taking place at the early stages of growth and development have only in past years become a focus of intense study. In thi.