Today's obesity epidemic may have been caused by childhood sugar intake decades ago

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-09/uota-toe092319.php

News Release 23-Sep-2019
University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Current obesity rates in adults in the United States could be the result of dietary changes that took place decades ago, according to a new study published by researchers at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

"While most public health studies focus on current behaviors and diets, we took a novel approach and looked at how the diets we consumed in our childhood affect obesity levels now that we are adults," said Alex Bentley, head of UT's Department of Anthropology and lead researcher of the study, which was published in Economics and Human Biology.

Consumption of excess sugar, particularly in sugar-sweetened beverages, is a known contributor to both childhood and adult obesity.

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