Cutting sugar as a toddler ‘slashes their dementia risk by a fifth’ decades later

LIMITING sugar before the age of two may protect the brain decades later and lower dementia risk, research suggests. Scientists, who tracked 65,000 Brits born in the 1940s and 50s during the Second World War sugar rationing, slashed their risk of adult dementia by a fifth, compared with those who were born after ration

Limiting a child's sugar consumption up until the age of two could help protect them against developing dementia later in life, a study has shown.

Having less sugar before the age of two was found to reduce dementia risk by 23 per cent