Babies sugar-rationed in 1950s Britain had less dementia 70 years later, in 60,394 UK adults

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1. 1Babies sugar-rationed in 1950s Britain had less dementia 70 years later, in 60,394 UK adults0:00
2. 2The rationed-era group had 27% less dementia and about half the Alzheimer's risk0:15
3. 3The study never asked what anyone ate; it used a birthday0:38
4. 4One 1953 law split near-identical babies into rationed and not, by birth date0:57
5. 5The 1953 cliff lifted the whole wartime diet, not sugar alone1:35
6. 6Alzheimer's risk roughly halved, on about 138 cases in 60,394 people2:09
7. 7The next test: individual childhood-diet records, outside 1950s Britain2:44
8. 8A link between early-life sugar and the aging brain, not a reason to change a baby's diet3:02