Limiting sugar in infancy reduces the risk of diabetes and hypertension

The occasional sweet treat likely won’t ruin your health. But too much added sugar at a young age could increase the risk of health complications later in life.

Limiting added sugars during the first 1,000 days after conception — so during pregnancy and a baby’s first two years — reduces the risk of a child developing diabetes and hypertension in adulthood, researchers report October 31 in Science.

“In the first 1,000 days of life, the brain and body are gearing up to finish developing,” says Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes, a registered dietician in Boston and a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Nutrition during that timeframe is particularly important,

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