12 easy ways to reduce sugar in your child’s diet

Expose children to different flavours from a young age, including fruit and veg (Alamy/PA) -

Keeping strict control of sugar intake in early life may have a major impact on reducing the risk of chronic disease later in adulthood.

Researchers from the University of Southern California’s Centre for Economic and Social Research found that cutting sugar exposure from conception, up to the child turning two years old, can lessen the chance of them going on to develop high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes.