Toddlers who eat sugary treats could be at greater risk of five major types of cancer in later life, a study has suggested.
Researchers found children born during wartime, when sugar rationing was in place, were 69 per cent less likely to develop liver cancer, and 40 per cent less likely to get bowel cancer, compared to those born after restrictions were lifted.
They also went on to have healthier diets, which could protect against conditions like obesity, and a younger biological age – the term for damage to the body over time.
‘Children may not remember what they ate before age two,’ Dr Weilong Zhang, a professor of
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