Apart from these revelations, the profound discovery was that our patients with four or more ACEs were twice as likely to be overweight or obese and 32.6 times as likely to have been diagnosed with learning and behavioral problems. When our statistician from Stanford first called to tell me how these numbers shook out, I was overwhelmed by a mix of emotions — elation at making an important discovery and a profound aching in my heart for all the kids who were struggling in school but being told that they had ADHD or a “behavior
