A child's sex may change how early sugar intake relates to body fat

The Medical News ·
Health & Medicine United Kingdom

A longitudinal study of 130 mother-child pairs found that added sugar intake during pregnancy was more strongly associated with body fat in girls, whereas exposure during infancy was more strongly associated with adiposity in boys at age two. The findings, based largely on a smaller group of 42 children with usable body-composition scans, are preliminary and do not establish a causal relationship.

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