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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1662" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/can-we-touch" target="_blank"><strong>Can We Touch? - Pocket</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>Physical contact remains vital to health, even as we do less of it. The rules of engagement aren’t necessarily changing—they’re just starting to be heard.</strong></p><p></p><p>Tiffany Field has spent decades trying to get people to touch one another more.</p><p></p><p>Her efforts started with premature babies, when she found that basic human touch led them to quickly gain weight. An initial small study, published in the journal <em><a href="https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/77/5/654.long" target="_blank">Pediatrics</a> </em>in 1986, showed that just 10 days of “body stroking and passive movements of the limbs” for less than an hour led babies to grow 47 percent faster. They averaged fewer days in the hospital and accrued $3,000 less in medical bills. The effect has been replicated <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2844909/#R16" target="_blank">multiple times</a>.</p><p></p><p>Field, a developmental psychologist by training, went on to found the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. She was a pioneer in highlighting the effects of “touch deprivation” among kids, famously those in orphanages. She explained to me that the effects are pervasive, influencing so many bodily systems that kids are diagnosed with “failure to thrive,” resulting in permanent physical and cognitive impairment, smaller stature, and social withdrawal later in life—which often includes aversion to physical contact.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1662, member: 1"] [URL='https://getpocket.com/explore/item/can-we-touch'][B]Can We Touch? - Pocket[/B][/URL] [B]Physical contact remains vital to health, even as we do less of it. The rules of engagement aren’t necessarily changing—they’re just starting to be heard.[/B] Tiffany Field has spent decades trying to get people to touch one another more. Her efforts started with premature babies, when she found that basic human touch led them to quickly gain weight. An initial small study, published in the journal [I][URL='https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/77/5/654.long']Pediatrics[/URL] [/I]in 1986, showed that just 10 days of “body stroking and passive movements of the limbs” for less than an hour led babies to grow 47 percent faster. They averaged fewer days in the hospital and accrued $3,000 less in medical bills. The effect has been replicated [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2844909/#R16']multiple times[/URL]. Field, a developmental psychologist by training, went on to found the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine. She was a pioneer in highlighting the effects of “touch deprivation” among kids, famously those in orphanages. She explained to me that the effects are pervasive, influencing so many bodily systems that kids are diagnosed with “failure to thrive,” resulting in permanent physical and cognitive impairment, smaller stature, and social withdrawal later in life—which often includes aversion to physical contact. [/QUOTE]
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