Why men like sweets more or say have a sweet tooth?

@ashuli Indian sweets, cakes, pastries ...Just about everything !

@kiran8 I understand what you mean :D Indian sweets are too good to left alone... :)

@kiran8 n not to forget the white rasgulla and kaju katli... :P

yes @Shyamalaa I agree with you on this, what to do Indian sweets have so much of sugar in them, if eaten as and when liked, women may gain extra pounds, which is very difficult to get rid off...

@ashuli no ji, men have more weight already

@yugocean thats what i meant but cant say it clearly na :D

Bad boy. lol. There is no difference between men and women preferring it I suppose. Except that we women develop taste for other things because we are often in kitchen pushing something or the other in mouth so when we are approving taste of our cooking or those of our mothers, mind is registering that. In the process, we are fine with other tastes, and sweet seems only seems to be less preferred variety. Sweets can be addictive if you start eating them everyday simply because your body wants to do less work too and sugar is easy to break down. But avoiding sugar completely is also not good, because sugar plays some role in keeping your neurotransmitters active. In other words, long term avoidance of sugar can increase the speed of your dementia or alzhiemer's, at least that is what I read. The best way to avoid diabetes is to keep active - physically. Avoiding sweets can come later when it is no longer possible to remain very active physically.

@hora_fugit nice to know that finally someone accepted the truth... :D

@kevin1877uk Actually one needs to be a little careful if eating Indian sweets as they have a little more sugar as compared to other desserts/sweets

@ashuli i never had aany, I do like sweets but I don't have them that often.

@kevin1877uk ..the picture that you see with this post, is rasagulla. It is made by squeezing some lemon in boiling milk, so that the milk splits into two different parts. The liquid is thrown away, the solid part is then drained some more and made into round balls with some essence, and small quantity of sugar. After this comes the most dangerous part. It is boiled in sugar syrup so that sugar seeps into it. It tastes really nice, but if you eat too much of it, you've had it. It has a brown cousin. That is made from milkpowder (we get freshly dried up milk here). Again round balls are made. These balls are first deep fried in butter oil. After that they are boiled in sugar syrup. The sugar syrup determines how much sugar you are getting into your body. It is called Gulab jamun because rose essence is used, and the color resembles Indian black berry (not really).

Chocolates win for most of the people. But for me I really don't like it. I eat it rarely. Most of the time I used to avoid it from the starting. People often state me as weird as I don't like chocos.

I too like spicy ,more, but in comparing, chocolate always win.

@akp100 yeah after reading all these comments now i too think so...

@jstory07 @ashuli women are better cook, so they are responsible

@yugocean hehehe you are right women are better cook than men... :D

@jstory07 yeahhhh women power !!!

@ashuli - You are right it is better to restrict consumption of sweets in our daily diets. However, consuming little bit of sweets is also prescribed by Doctors because sugar has carbohydrates and carbohydrates are good source of energy and we require some energy to perform our tasks. Needless to say that excess of everything is bad, so we should not indulge in excess consumption of sweets. I can understand that we people (read Indians) get to enjoy more sweets during festivals.

@dpk262006 may be :D In daily meals its not possible or right to consume these heavy sweets, at my place they are there only when some festival or any other occasion worth celebrating otherwise no sweets as my Dad is diabetic and with a sweet tooth... :D

@dpk262006 well said !

hmmm... i think they too fall in the sweets category...

@ashuli My other brother-in-law is like that too . They are also choosy when it comes to fruits .

@SIMPLYD cool, thats so much control on his taste buds :)

@ashuli Can't help myself.

@Jlyn10 Do not worry, I am here to save you from this misery, so where is everything ?

@Jlyn10 wow, guess you have a sweet tooth

How about that? They're all my favourite.

@ashuli But I do not have much weight

@yugocean even eating namkeens/snacks can make you gain weight :D

@marlina hmm... the people i know may be only they do...

I agree.

@mkrnex no not not coming to any conclusion just trying to check that what I have heard correct

@kandra yeah gaining weight due to eating sweets is the bad part

@gamyam yes Indian sweets are difficult to resist

@writerjo thanks

@Butchcass4 wow losing 51 pounds is really a amazing achievement. Please can you spare a minute to share the secret of this success...

@ashuli I have an article called "Weight Loss Through Prayer". In case you can't find it I'll share the main things that work. I became desperate before God and last August I pleaded with Him to help me and He has. Of course you have to have a relationship with Him. If you don't here's your opportunity not to just lose weight but to know if you were to die today you'd go to heaven, but first: John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish (go to hell) but have eternal life. So you have to believe in Jesus and ask Him to forgive your sins and talk to Him like He's your best friend. Also I signed up with a weight loss center that I basically get weighed in each 6-8 weeks. They give you some tips but I have been following the Lord's leading and I have a 30 minute power walking I do each day. Only 30 minutes of exercise a day, well I break it up on Tuesdays and Saturdays I'll do the 40 minute power walk. The DVD is by Leslie Sonome she's on youtube. I'll be glad to answer any questions.

@SHARINGPARTHA yeah everyone has his/her own taste buds

@ashuli So, we can state that there must be no differentiation on the basis of gender for sweetmeats. If you like it, have it (till diabetes enters your body!).

thanks! finally found someone who has a sweet tooth

@Kchitij2007

@ashuli You got me!