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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Camilla Foster

How does sugar affect our heart health?

Excess sugar consumption can impact your blood pressure and cholesterol (Alamy/PA) -

New research suggests that limiting sugar during pregnancy and the first two years of life can have lasting benefits for our heart health.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), looked at 63,433 people from the UK Biobank born between October 1951 and March 1956 with no history of heart disease, and from this compared 40,063 people exposed to sugar rationing between 1940 and 1953 with 23,370 people who were not.

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