Reducing a baby's sugar intake can prevent health problems in adult life.
Sugar intake as a baby causes health problems down the line
Experts have analysed the impact of the end of sugar rationing in the UK in 1953 - where the amount of sugar consumed by the population soon doubled - and have concluded that the first 1,000 days of life can shape a person's future health and establishes a sweet tooth that remains for the rest of their lives.
The University of Southern California study shows that limiting a tot's sugar intake slashed the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 35 per cent and high blood pressure by 20 per cent.
Tadeja Gracner, one of the researchers involved in the study, said: "Exposure to a relatively low-sugar environment in utero and early childhood significantly reduces the diabetes and hypertension risk decades later, as well as delays their onset."