Why does sugar and oil mixture make you gain weight? What foods are there in sugar and oil mixture?

In our daily diet, the most likely thing to make us gain weight is the mixture of sugar and oil. So why does the mixture of sugar and oil make us gain weight easily? What foods belong to the category of the mixture of sugar and oil?

If you eat butter and fat alone, you will definitely feel sick after tasting a little bit. Similarly, you will not eat too much sugar or rice. But when you encounter sugar and oil mixtures such as biscuits, cakes, ice cream, and braised pork, you may not be able to control your mouth! And eating a high-sugar and high-oil mixture is 5 times the calories of eating pure oil and pure sugar. Scientists believe that this may be because this mixture of sugar and fat does not exist naturally in nature, but is a man-made refined combination, which makes the brain feel more pleasant than eating sugar or fat alone.

1. Fried dough sticks, fried cakes, fried dough twists, fried dough sticks, fried dough sticks, etc. in breakfast mainly use flour or starch as raw materials. Fried foods are the most typical sugar and oil mixed foods. Not only are they high in carbohydrates and fat, but they also contain almost no protein, making them the easiest to gain weight.

Fried foods for breakfast, such as vegetarian fried dumplings, pan-fried buns, and pies, are also high in calories. If it is pure meat, you can eat a little, but not too much.

2. Fried foods such as instant noodles, potato chips, and French fries. These are also foods that are fried with flour and starch as the main ingredients. Although some instant noodles are claimed to be non-fried, the actual calories are not much lower than fried instant noodles. It is actually okay to eat instant noodles occasionally, as long as you don't eat them often. And it is best to add more vegetables when eating instant noodles.

3. Puffed food, jelly, candy. They are all high-calorie foods that only provide excess calories to the body. If it is pure chocolate, you can eat some appropriately.

4. Biscuits, donuts, cakes, etc. The raw materials are mainly flour, vegetable oil, sugar, and cream cakes and other foods will also add cream. Because animal cream is expensive, many businesses will use vegetable cream instead of animal cream. Vegetable cream contains trans fatty acids, which are very harmful to health.

There are currently no laws or regulations in China that restrict the use of trans fats, and there is a situation of excessive use of trans fats.

5. Ice cream, popsicles, etc. The main ingredients are milk, sugar, vegetable cream, etc.

6. Preserved fruits and dried fruits. Preserved fruits are mostly pickled with sugar. Fruits themselves contain glucose and fructose. With the addition of sucrose, the sugar content is even higher. Dried fruits contain oil and it is easy to eat too much. For example, peanuts, melon seeds, walnuts, etc. have a relatively high oil content. Eating 30-50 grams of dried fruits a day can meet the body's nutritional needs, but it cannot satisfy the appetite. It is very easy to eat more than half a catty. It may not seem like much, but it is actually very high in calories.

7. Sugary drinks such as milk tea and cola. The calories of two common cola brands are 180 and 190 kilojoules per 100 milliliters respectively, and each bottle of cola contains about 64.5 and 68.1 grams of sugar. The sugar content in milk tea varies greatly, and a serving of milk tea contains at least 50 grams of sugar.

Some beverages labeled sugar-free may contain no calories, but the sweeteners in them will cause the body to retain more water, which is also bad for your health.

8. High-calorie fruits. The glucose and fructose in fruits will be directly absorbed and used by the body, and can be easily converted into fat. Apples, guavas and cherry tomatoes are the most suitable fruits for weight loss.

9. Fried meat foods, such as sweet and sour pork, stir-fried pork, etc. The main reason is that they contain starch, and after frying, the calories of the food are higher than those of stir-frying.

10. Animal offal. Animal offal has a high fat content, especially after frying or sautéing, such as stir-frying liver tips. Animal offal is very delicious. Eating it in moderation can supplement the body with a variety of nutrients, but eating too much is not good for your health. Also pay attention to the cooking method.

It’s okay to eat pork head, beef head, etc. in moderation.

11. Fatty meat: Pork belly, beef brisket, fat beef, fat lamb, etc., as well as the skin of chicken and duck, also have high fat content.

When eating meat with high fat content, such as fatty meat and animal offal, you must pay attention to controlling the amount of staple food. For example, if you eat braised pork with rice, one bowl of rice with five bowls of braised pork will not make the body take in too much carbon water and fat. On the contrary, five bowls of rice with one bowl of braised pork will make the body take in a lot of carbon water and fat. This is mainly because rice is easily digested and absorbed by the body. The body needs more calories to digest meat. Rice just provides more calories to the body, which will promote fat absorption. After the body absorbs enough fat, it will not absorb too much fat. If you don’t eat staple food at all and only eat meat, especially if you consume a lot of fat, the body will produce ketone bodies, which is actually conducive to weight loss. The ketogenic diet is based on this principle. When I eat braised pork, I usually only eat one bowl of rice, but I don’t restrict the braised pork. Coupled with proper exercise, I not only don’t gain weight, but lose weight.

Sugar-oil mixture: refers to high-carb and high-oil, with the core being high sugar and high fat. In other words, the ratio of sugar to oil in this food is extremely high, while other nutrients are very low. For example, in the two examples of baked and fried foods, apart from flour (carbohydrate), sugar (carbohydrate) and oil (fat), there are basically no other nutrients. This kind of refined carbohydrate is digested and absorbed very quickly, and at the same time, it is extremely high in calories, causing blood sugar to rise very quickly. In order to balance blood sugar, the body needs to secrete a large amount of insulin (which can promote fat synthesis). Therefore, the two major conditions for fat synthesis are met: excess calories + excess insulin.

What happens if you eat too much sugar?

1. Cause obesity and weight gain

If a person consumes too much sugar, it will be stored in the human body under the action of insulin, converted into fat, and cause the body to gain weight.

2. Wrinkles and premature aging

If you eat too much sugar, the sugar molecules will enter the blood and damage the collagen in our skin through osmotic pressure, making our skin look no longer smooth and tender and begin to age.

3. Cause cancer

Sugar is acidic. If the body takes in too much sugar, it will cause an acidic constitution, an imbalance of acid-base in the body, and a decrease in our immunity, leading to cancer. Acidity is a physical characteristic that cancer likes.

4. Diabetes

Eating sugar will definitely not cause diabetes immediately, but long-term intake of high-sugar foods will increase the burden on our pancreas, which will be the beginning of diabetes.

5. Tooth decay

Many people love to eat sweets when they are children. If we don’t rinse our mouths in time after eating sweets, the sugar will corrode our teeth and even cause oral diseases, which will make it difficult for us to eat.

6. Gallstone Risk

If you eat too much sugar and your bile loses its balance, you are at risk of developing gallstones.

What happens if you eat too much oil?

1. High cholesterol

Oil contains a lot of fat, and eating too much will increase our blood fatty acids, which will attach to blood vessels and cause arteriosclerosis, and may eventually lead to blood clots or strokes. If blood clots continue to develop, they will lead to heart disease.

2. Gastroenteritis

Intake of large amounts of greasy food is very harmful. If you don't have time to empty your stomach when you sleep, and lie down without digesting and excreting it, it will flow back, burdening your esophagus and stomach, and making you prone to diarrhea and abdominal pain, and you may also suffer from chronic gastroenteritis and other diseases.

3. Human body imbalance

The ingredients that the human body absorbs from oil should include fatty acids and linoleic acid, but now there are too many fatty acids in edible oils, which makes us lack the supplementation of linoleic acid.

4. High temperature deterioration

Now that conditions have improved, many foods are processed, including oil used for stir-frying and frying. Such a high-temperature environment will cause the oil to deteriorate, destroy the nutrients it provides, and even make it difficult to excrete from the body. Excessive consumption will cause fat accumulation and lead to the formation of fatty liver.

5. Obesity causes acne

Eating too much oil will make your skin bad. Less oil may make your skin better. Too much oil will cause the skin to secrete too much oil, which will cause acne.