{
  "id": 16736732,
  "title": "Limiting sugar in the first 1,000 days of life is associated with later dementia onset, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/limiting-sugar-in-the-first-1-000-days-of-life-is-associated-with",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-27T10:00:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PsyPost",
    "slug": "psypost",
    "url": "https://www.psypost.org/limiting-sugar-in-the-first-1000-days-of-life-is-associated-with-later-dementia-onset-study-finds/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Britain’s sugar rationing ended abruptly in 1953, creating a natural experiment. People exposed to rationing in the womb and during their first two years had a lower risk of dementia by their late 60s and early 70s, with diagnoses arriving about two and a half years later on average.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}