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A childhood shaped by sugar rationing was linked to mental health more than 50 years later - News-Medical

Published by News-Medical.Net By Vijay Kumar Malesu · 24 August 2026 at 06:45
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A childhood shaped by sugar rationing was linked to mental health more than 50 years later - News-Medical
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UK Biobank researchers examined whether sugar rationing during pregnancy and the first two years of life was associated with adult sweet-food preferences, sugar intake, brain structure, anxiety, and depression.

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