Sugary foods such as ice cream, cookies, chocolate and candy spike your insulin levels, which makes loses weight really hard. Keeping your insulin levels low will help you reduce your overall body fat percentage, and that means belly fat.
Eating sugar also increases your cravings for it, and since sweets tend to be high in calories, that's another reason to cut down and only indulge every once in a while.
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