Limiting sugar before age two linked to better brain health

They argued sugar rationing up to the age of two was linked to a 23% lower level of dementia and the disease being diagnosed two-and-a-half years later.

One big issue is, it is impossible to know how much sugar each of the people in the study were actually eating, merely when they were born relative to sugar rationing.

Reducing sugar in toddlers may benefit brain health Scientists have suggested eating very little sugar up to the age of two may help protect the brain decades later.