More consensual touch helps ease or buffer against mental and physical complaints, meta-analysis shows

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    “Our work illustrates that touch interventions are best suited for reducing pain, depression and anxiety in adults and children as well as for increasing weight gain in newborns,” the researchers write.

    Are we just ignoring the fact that touch is making our babies fatter?