{"id":142009,"date":"2025-10-24T04:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142009\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T04:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:45:12","slug":"lower-sugar-intake-in-early-years-can-reduce-heart-risk-in-adulthood-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/142009\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower sugar intake in early years \u2018can reduce heart risk in adulthood\u2019, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Diet in the first 1,000 days of life can have a lasting effect. Stock image. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8bc93a6f-c7e7-4d87-a7d1-37af6412fc27.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Diet in the first 1,000 days of life can have a lasting effect. Stock image. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Parents who restrict their child\u2019s intake of sugar during early life up to two years of age can lower the risk of several heart conditions in adulthood, including heart attack, heart failure and stroke, according to a study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The greatest protection against the risk of developing heart problems, and the longest delay in disease onset, was seen in people whose sugar intake was restricted from conception to around two years of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diet in the first 1,000 days of life can have a lasting effect. Stock image. Photo: Getty Parents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[2271,18,135,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-142009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115427326495926828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}