Sugar before age 2 shapes health for 70 years, wartime British data shows

A British study using postwar sugar rationing as a natural experiment found that lower sugar exposure in the first 1,000 days of life was linked to lower rates of several cancers and signs of slower biological ageing. People who experienced more rationing were still eating less sugar and maintaining healthier diets around age 50. The findings suggest that early dietary habits have lasting health consequences spanning decades.

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