What You Eat Before Age 2 May Affect Your Health 70 Years Later The relationship between early life sugar exposure and long term health outcomes has been a topic of interest for some time, but recent research offers new insights into this phenomenon.
By examining the effects of postwar sugar rationing in Britain on individuals born between 1951 and 1956, researchers have found that small variations in sugar consumption during critical development periods can have far reaching consequences on an individual's health decades later.
A study analyzing data from over 64,000 people found a significant correlation between early life sugar exposure and reduced rates of various cancers.