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Cutting out sugar very early in life—even before birth—may lower risks of heart disease decades later. That’s the finding of a multicenter collaborative study published in British Medical Journal. The study used a unique “natural experiment” from postwar Britain to show that limiting sugar in the first 1,000 days of life is linked to significantly better cardiovascular health in adulthood.

The analysis included 63,433 participants from the UK Biobank. Of these, 40,063 were exposed to sugar rationing early in life, while 23,370 were not. Those without sugar from the womb through age two had markedly better outcomes: 20% lower overall cardiovascular disease risk, 25% lower heart attack risk, 26% lower heart failure risk, 24% lower atrial fibrillation risk, 31% lower stroke risk, and 27% lower risk of cardiovascular death.

This observational analysis suggests that good nutrition during gestation and early childhood has lifelong benefits for heart health. It strongly supports current guidance to limit added sugars for not only infants and toddlers but also for moms with their babies in utero.

https://www.bmj.com/content/391/bmj-2024-083890

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260222092324.htm

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