How does sugar make you fat?

missylectro
missylectro Posts: 448 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Does anyone know?
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  • fangedneko
    fangedneko Posts: 133 Member
    It doesn't.
  • AliceDark
    AliceDark Posts: 3,886 Member
    It doesn't.
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    It doesn't, unless it puts you over your maintenance calories.
  • asdowe13
    asdowe13 Posts: 1,951 Member
    By eating way too much of it, and even then it's not just the sugar.


    If you are eating sugar in a Caloric deficit or at maintanence, it will not make you fat.
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    Only if you over eat and exceed your maintenance calories with it. Same is true for any of the macros (protein, fat, cabs - sugar being a carb.)
  • RangerRN507
    RangerRN507 Posts: 124 Member
    Sugar in and of itself will not make you fat but an excess of it like any other nutrient will get stored as body fat. sugar in the normal sense of it is a disaccharide, even purer would be glucose or dextrose which is as pure as the sugar in your blood and in the sense of glucose it is blood sugar, but the body can only store so much of this. so table sugar for example gets ingested, the body breaks it down and fills your glucose stores, insulin is also released in response to this. your body will then store glycogen in the muscle and liver and any excess from there will be stored as body fat. key word here is excess. Myself and other athletes take upwords of 60-80g of dextrose post workout in a 2:1 Ratio to protein specifically for the insulin response to carbs. Its part of nutrient timing principles I heavily support and practice and has worked great for myself and the guys I have trained. So in conclusion. sugar does not make you fat and when timed properly can have positive effects but only if you know what your doing.
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    Magic
  • NutellaByTheSpoon
    NutellaByTheSpoon Posts: 41
    When you eat too much sugar at a time or eat a high glycemic food.Your blood sugar rises quickly than you release insulin and then the excess sugar get stored as fat. Than you blood sugar is low and you crave that food again.
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    When you eat too much sugar at a time or eat a high glycemic food.Your blood sugar rises quickly than you release insulin and then the excess sugar get stored as fat. Than you blood sugar is low and you crave that food again.

    No.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    Sugar, fat, carbs - none of these things "make you fat" - eating too many calories does.
  • culo97
    culo97 Posts: 256 Member
    Magic
    Thanks for clearing things up.
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    It doesn't.

    +1

    Consuming more calories than you burn over a period of time makes you fat. Sugar is just yummy.
  • RangerRN507
    RangerRN507 Posts: 124 Member
    When you eat too much sugar at a time or eat a high glycemic food.Your blood sugar rises quickly than you release insulin and then the excess sugar get stored as fat. Than you blood sugar is low and you crave that food again.

    No.

    No
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,899 Member
    Magic
    Thanks for clearing things up.

    You're welcome
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    In and of itself, sugar doesn't make you fat. context and dosage are very important here.
  • SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish
    SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish Posts: 831 Member
    Technical answer is it doesnt really.

    Sum of all effects answer is it probably will make you fat because: if you eat sugar filled foods, they tend to be higher in calories and low on fiber and mass, causing you to mis-estimate your body's fullness and eat more and go over on calories, sugar filled food consumption also tends to result in not meeting other nutritional needs when you've already consumed enough calories, which in the end tends to cause your body to want to eat more and go over on calories that way. Sugar also highly stimulates your taste receptors, causing you to gain pleasure from eating it, resulting in a probability to over eat that way too.

    So, if you are aware of these effects, or just counting calories, you can cause the answer to be no. If you aren't aware of these effects or not counting calories, it will tend to "cause" you to gain weight yes.
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  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    It doesn't.

    Gremlins make you fat.

    But only if you eat them after midnight.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    It doesn't.

    Gremlins make you fat.

    But only if you eat them after midnight.
    Wait, so meal timing does make a difference?
  • dbmata
    dbmata Posts: 12,950 Member
    Magic

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    Sugar makes you fat in the same way that any other macro makes you fat, but consuming so much of it that you are at caloric surplus. It isn't the sugar that makes you fat, its consuming more calorically than you require that makes you fat.
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  • _Resolve_
    _Resolve_ Posts: 735 Member
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  • Iwishyouwell
    Iwishyouwell Posts: 1,888 Member
    Sugar didn't "make" me fat.

    My poor relationship with dessert foods, which I have a long history of severely overeating, played the largest factor in helping me become extremely fat.

    The sugar didn't make me fat. I made myself fat using the sugar.
  • patfriendly
    patfriendly Posts: 263 Member
    Sugar raises insulin level in body. If you constantly eat a lot of sugar then too much insulin secretion may eventually lead to body not being able to produce insulin. Thats when you become diabetic. Once your body turns diabetic, your digestion and metabolism will slow down, which will lead to more fat stored in your body for the same calorie that you used to consume and burn. Sugar also raises inflammation in body, making you think, you are hungry when you are not and that leads to eating food you don't really need.

    So sugar by itself doesn't directly make you fat, but it initiates a process in your body that would lead to getting fat.
  • Alyssa_Is_LosingIt
    Alyssa_Is_LosingIt Posts: 4,696 Member
    Sugar raises insulin level in body. If you constantly eat a lot of sugar then too much insulin secretion may eventually lead to body not being able to produce insulin. Thats when you become diabetic. Once your body turns diabetic, your digestion and metabolism will slow down, which will lead to more fat stored in your body for the same calorie that you used to consume and burn. Sugar also raises inflammation in body, making you think, you are hungry when you are not and that leads to eating food you don't really need.

    So sugar by itself doesn't directly make you fat, but it initiates a process in your body that would lead to getting fat.

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  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    When you eat too much sugar at a time or eat a high glycemic food.Your blood sugar rises quickly than you release insulin and then the excess sugar get stored as fat. Than you blood sugar is low and you crave that food again.

    is your last name 'Brah'?
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    This. This is how sugar makes you fat.

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  • GBrady43068
    GBrady43068 Posts: 1,256 Member
    Only if you over eat and exceed your maintenance calories with it. Same is true for any of the macros (protein, fat, cabs - sugar being a carb.)
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