Infants deprived of touching fail to thrive and grow, even if they get proper food, nourishment and protection. Touching is most powerful by appropriate skin to skin contact. Experiments with rabbits fed atherosclerosis inducing diets show that those rabbits which are held and petted by the laboratory workers tend not to get atherosclerosis {hardening of the arteries}. Those rabbits which are not held and petted tend to get atherosclerosis {Dossey 1985}.
( Charles L. Whitfield )
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