Sugar rationing in early childhood linked to 27% lower dementia risk
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Sugar rationing in early childhood linked to 27% lower dementia risk.
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Research drawing on Britain's wartime experience of food restrictions has revealed a striking connection between early-life sugar consumption and the likelihood of developing dementia in later years.A newly published study in the journal Neurology, analysing data from 64,737 UK Biobank participants, found that individuals whose sugar intake was curtailed before the age of two faced a 23 per cent reduced risk of dementia compared with those born after rationing ended.The British Government imposed sugar rationing in 1940, a measure that remained in force until 1953.
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Scientists leveraged this unique historical circumstance to examine how restricted sugar exposure during infancy and in the womb might shape long-term brain health across an entire generation.Participants who were exposed to sugar rationing both in utero and throughout their first year had a 21 per cent lower chance of receiving a dementia diagnosis.
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Extending that restricted period to age two pushed the reduction to 23 per...
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