A study on people born during and just after wartime sugar rationing in the United Kingdom has found that rationing was linked to a significantly lower risk of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure later in life.
Author of the study Tadeja Gracner, of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and his team found that the risk of developing type 2 diabetes was 35 percent lower among people who experienced rationed sugar and candy during the first 1,000 days of life—from gestation to age two—and the risk of developing high blood pressure was 20 percent lower, compared to those born after rationing.
Sugar Rationing Improves Health in Long Term, Study Finds
