These six delicious foods are making you gain weight

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Sometimes we all want to treat ourselves to delicious but unhealthy foods like French fries or ice cream. But it's better not to eat them all the time, otherwise you risk gaining a lot of weight.

There are foods that, when consumed, can cause a strong craving and make you eat more and more of them. Here are six types of such foods.

Soda drinks and French fries. The most common craving is for foods that contain a lot of calories, added sugar, salt, and saturated fats. This is according to Mary Wertz, a registered dietitian. Such food and drink options include soda and other sweetened beverages, ice cream, candy, hot dogs, donuts, frozen pizza, and French fries.

White pasta, bread, and other refined carbohydrates. These carbohydrates only satisfy hunger for a short time because they are low in fiber. They may also be coated in sugar.

Donut with jelly or cream.When you eat these delicious foods, the reward neurons in your brain become very active. And you are especially vulnerable to these pleasant sensations when you are stressed or experiencing some negative emotions. Tasty foods can stimulate the production of hormones such as insulin, cortisol, dopamine, leptin and ghrelin, which affect food cravings.

Candy. Animal studies have shown that fructose consumption leads to leptin resistance (a hormone that suppresses appetite) and obesity. With leptin resistance, a person constantly feels hungry, even if they eat enough food. As a result, they can easily overeat.

Ice cream. A scientific paper published in Nature Neuroscience notes that simultaneously fatty and sweet high-calorie foods caused compulsive overeating in obese rats. And the more the rats ate, the more they had to eat to get the same level of pleasure. And this reaction is similar to the reaction to drugs.

Spicy cheese sticks. The burning sensation when eating such sticks seems pleasant and it provokes the release of endorphins in the body. When this effect disappears, we want to feel this sensation again.