Diabetes risk soars for adults whose mums ate a high-sugar diet during pregnancy, but only during rationing of sugar

The original title of the article is kind of lame! Do not almost all kids have a sweet tooth at some point?

This seems to be a typical article to use an obscure study to demonize sugar!

This article also uses the terrible, ideological expression "pregnant people"!

From the abstract:

"We examined the impact of sugar exposure within 1000 days since conception on diabetes and hypertension, leveraging quasi-experimental variation from the end of the United Kingdom’s sugar rationing in September 1953. Rationing restricted sugar intake to levels within current dietary guidelines, yet consumption nearly doubled immediately post-rationing. Using an event study design with UK Biobank data comparing adults conceived just before or after rationing ended, we found that early-life rationing reduced diabetes and hypertension risk by about 35% and 20%, respectively, and delayed disease onset by 4 and 2 years. Protection was evident with in-utero exposure and increased with postnatal sugar restriction, especially after six months when solid foods likely began. In-utero sugar rationing alone accounted for about one third of the risk reduction."

Diabetes risk soars for adults who had a sweet tooth as kids "Study of 1950s sugar rationing in the United Kingdom also suggests risk to babies whose mums ate a high-sugar diet during pregnancy."

Exposure to sugar rationing in the first 1000 days of life protected against chronic disease (no public access)