New research has found that people with a genetic defect in their ability to digest sucrose eat less cake, sweets and chocolate, which could hold the key to helping the wider population to eat less ...

"If you don’t like sweet foods, it is possible that you have reduced SI function ... "We consume 9-12% of our dietary intake ...

The findings open up the possibility of developing treatments to target the gene in order to help curb population-wide sugar ...