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Limiting sugar intake in the first two years of life has lasting benefits for the heart into adulthood, new research suggests.
Experts found that people were less likely to suffer conditions such as heart attack, heart failure and stroke if they had little sugar in early childhood and if their mothers had little sugar in pregnancy.
The research team looked at data from wartime sugar rationing in more than 63,000 people from the UK Biobank, using this data as a proxy for sugar intake. The study included around 40,000 people exposed to sugar rationing - which lasted from 1940 to 1953 - and nearly 24,000 who were not.
Health records were examined for conditions such as heart disease, heart attack, heart failure, irregular heartbeat, stroke, and death as a result of these con