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

ScienceDailyWednesday, August 26, 2026 at 11:30 AM

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What you eat before age 2 may affect your health 70 years later
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Britain’s postwar sugar rationing created a rare natural experiment that let researchers examine how early sugar exposure might affect health decades later.

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Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product. Britain’s postwar sugar rationing created a rare natural experiment that let researchers examine how early sugar exposure might affect health decades later.

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Britain’s postwar sugar rationing created a rare natural experiment that let researchers examine how early sugar exposure might affect health decades later.

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Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product.

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