No sugar for the first 1000 days of a child’s life from conception

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This interesting research was published recently:

https://www.science.org/content/article/britain-s-postwar-sugar-craze-confirms-harms-sweet-diets-early-life

In short, children whose first 1000 days (starting from conception) were during the rationing of sugar in the UK ended up with a 40% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes and a 20% lower risk of hypertension later in life. These are conditions which can cause stokes, heart attacks, and problems with eyes, kidneys and feet.

So for pregnant mums out there and parents with small children it may well be worth abstaining from sugar for those first crucial 1000 days.

Sugar is in almost everything OP I agree it's probably one of if not the worst thing we can eat and is the root cause of a lot of problems but it is down right almost impossible to avoid unless you commit to something like keto which is actually very good for you lots of research on it. Can't for the life of it timber the name of the documentary abut there was one explaining how and why the food pyramid was changed and why society went from a high fat diet to a high carb diet and basically how the people controlling that are in it for the money . To k it was on Netflix will try find the name

This would be almost impossible to do. I wouldn't even attempt it if give it further thought.

Bit late for those of us who mainlined chocolate throughout our pregnancies!

But in general I appreciate it's a good point.

I was raised with very little sugar, culturally sweet food isn’t eaten much. I also worked as a dental nurse including a specialist clinic that used to use all anaesthetic techniques. Having to help hold down toddlers whose teeth were being removed as they were put under made me anti sugar if honest. So I restricted sugar in DS food intake a lot, not completely but no sweets, jam, biscuits fruit juice, fromage frais and limited fruit until he was 18 months so I didn’t make a thousand days. Like me he prefers savoury food so no idea if that helped. It was all about his teeth though.