Nutrition & Healing · ScienceDaily Nutrition · August 26, 2026

What you eat before age 2 may affect your health 70 years later

Britain’s postwar sugar rationing created a rare natural experiment that let researchers examine how early sugar exposure might affect health decades later. People who experienced more rationing during their first 1,000 days had lower rates of several cancers and showed signs of slower biological aging. They were also still eating less sugar and maintaining healthier diets around age 50.

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