Did WWII sugar rationing in childhood reduce future T2DM ...

Sugar rationing in early-life reduced T2DM and hypertension risk by about 35% and 20%, respectively. · Disease onset was delayed by approximately ...

World War II sugar rationing poses a natural experiment · Sugar rationing ends, consumption spikes · 50 years of post-rationing data offers long- ...

Those exposed to rationing had significantly lower risks of Type 2 diabetes (35% lower) and hypertension (20% lower), compared to those who did ...

Limiting sugar during the first 1,000 days after conception—the period including pregnancy and the two years after birth—may reduce a child's ...

Kids who grew up during sugar rationing tended to develop type 2 diabetes four years later, and high blood pressure two years later, compared to ...

The analysis of a six-year period showed a 30% decrease in obesity risk for babies conceived or born during rationing, with a faster increase in ...

Limiting sugar intake from conception through early childhood was linked to lower risks of type 2 diabetes and hypertension, ...

Children who experienced sugar restrictions during their first 1000 days after conception had up to 35% lower risk of developing type 2 ...

While rationing was in effect during the Second World War and several years afterward, sugar intake was less than 40 grams per day for adults ...

The scientists also found that people who developed type 2 diabetes did so four years later if they were toddlers during sugar rationing and ...

During WWII, sugar was scarce, and everyone made do with less ... The risk reduction for hypertension was not as great, 6% for those ...

The group of people born before or just after the end of sugar rationing were 35 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, 30 percent less ...

Children whose parents keep them off sugar during their first two years of life have lower rates of diabetes and high blood pressure for the ...

Wartime sugar rationing. The study exploits a natural experiment: the end of sweets and sugar wartime rationing in the U.K. during World War II.

Combining food surveys and sugar sales from the 1950s with medical records of adults from the UK Biobank database, the team found that people ...

The findings indicated that individuals born during the sugar rationing period had significantly lower rates of Type 2 diabetes and hypertension ...

A natural experiment shows that children born before sugar rationing ended in the U.K. had lower health risks as adults.

The team analyzed figures from the UK Biobank, a large biomedical database, which showed how babies conceived or born during rationing had a 30% ...

It found that in-utero exposure to sugar rationing was enough to lower risks, but disease protection increased with the length of exposure ...

Kids who grew up during sugar rationing tended to develop type 2 diabetes four years later, and high blood pressure two years later, compared to ...