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"Weathering" and its effect on poor health and life expectancy

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Arline Geronimus developed a theory that stress caused by racism and other societal pressures contributes to poor health.

She developed the theory in a book called " Weathering" She says stress affects the body down to the cellular level, leading to premature aging.

Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom has spent much of her career putting her theories into practice, trying to overcome the impacts of weathering.

Dr. Kimberlydawn Wisdom: "Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society" Anderson : "With my first child I had my hands full, kind of stressed. Kind of bummed out. Post-partum depression" Wisdom: People should eat healthy, have healthy behaviors, but yet we see the weathering.

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