How does sugar make you fat?

missylectro

Does anyone know?

fangedneko

It doesn't.

AliceDark

It doesn't.

Hornsby

It doesn't, unless it puts you over your maintenance calories.

asdowe13

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

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

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

Magic

NutellaByTheSpoon

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

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

Sugar, fat, carbs - none of these things "make you fat" - eating too many calories does.

culo97

Magic

Thanks for clearing things up.

Alyssa_Is_LosingIt

It doesn't.

+1

Consuming more calories than you burn over a period of time makes you fat. Sugar is just yummy.

RangerRN507

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

Magic

Thanks for clearing things up.

You're welcome

cwolfman13

In and of itself, sugar doesn't make you fat. context and dosage are very important here.

SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish

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

It doesn't.

Gremlins make you fat.

But only if you eat them after midnight.

DeguelloTex

It doesn't.

Gremlins make you fat.

But only if you eat them after midnight.

Wait, so meal timing does make a difference?

dbmata

Magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs

Aaron_K123

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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Iwishyouwell

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

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

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.

mccindy72

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

This. This is how sugar makes you fat.

GBrady43068

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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