{"id":93062,"date":"2026-08-18T20:28:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93062"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:28:29","slug":"uk-babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-after-ww2-had-lower-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/18\/uk-babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-after-ww2-had-lower-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"UK babies born under sugar rationing after WW2 had lower cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2aoqv4.img?w=590&h=393&m=6\" alt=\"A baby with light brown hair lies on a bed, smiling and chewing on a hand. The room is softly lit with yellow and green bedding.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Babies born in Britain during the final years of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/world-war-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">postwar<\/a>\u00a0sugar rationing grew into adults with markedly lower rates of several\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/cancer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">cancers<\/a> and signs of slower biological ageing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/society-culture-and-history\/social-issues\/uk-babies-born-under-sugar-rationing-after-ww2-had-lower-cancer-risk\/ar-AA2aoiZu?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=6a84bd54b01945aa9cc3d9e24ef02ab4&ei=83\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Babies born in Britain during the final years of\u00a0postwar\u00a0sugar rationing grew into adults with markedly lower rates of several\u00a0cancers and signs of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food-and-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Sugar.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93063,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93062\/revisions\/93063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}