2.Sugar Causes Obesity¹

2.糖会导致肥胖

A lot of people equate² obesity with sugar: candy, ice cream, pastries³ and the like. If you're fat, the thinking goes, surely it's because you eat a lot of sugary desserts. Those a little more versed⁴ in nutrition often warn against eating too much starchy food (potatoes, rice, cereal) because your body changes starches⁵ into sugar -- and eating sugar piles on the pounds. However, this is not true. If it was, people who ate a lot of rice (say, the Japanese) or pasta (the Italians) would be among the world's fattest people. But guess what? They're some of the slimmest.

许多人把肥胖与糖类划上等号，包括糖果、冰淇淋、糕点等。如果你很胖，人们就会想当然的认为这一定是因为你吃了很多甜点。那些对营养学有点儿研究的人通常警告人们别吃太多含淀粉的食物（土豆、大米、谷物），因为人体会将淀粉转化为糖，有糖就会增加体重。然而，这并不是真的。如果确实如此，那些常吃大米（日本）或面食（意大利）的人就应该是世界上最胖的人才对。可是你猜怎么着？他们却位于最苗条的国家之列。

Here's the thing. If you eat a lot of sugary foods, like cake and cookies, and drink sugary sodas⁶ and juice, you will gain weight. But that's because you're ingesting a lot of calories, period, not because sugar is inherently fattening⁷. If your overall calorie count is within a healthy range, eating sugar is not going to create love handles or a jelly belly.

事情是这样的。如果你吃了很多含糖食物，比如蛋糕和饼干，并喝了含糖苏打水和果汁，你会长胖。但那是因为你摄入了大量卡路里，而不是糖本身让人长胖。如果你摄入的卡路里在健康范围内，吃糖并不会增加腰腹的赘肉。