Highlights from our new paper: limiting sugar in early life protects against obesity in adulthood. Effects are largest among those at high genetic risk of obesity, meaning diet can reduce genetic-based disparities (!!). And we define obesity with a multidimensional measure, going beyond just BMI.
Sugar rationing in post-WWII UK reduced genetic disparities in obesity 50 years later in adulthood, from Tadeja Gracner, Claire Boone, Patrick Turley, and Paul Gertler www.nber.org/papers/w35005