India, Dec. 5 -- Whenever you go on a diet, try to lose fat or drop the number on the weighing scale, one of the first things people or your coach will ask you to give up from your diet is sugar. According to the University of Utah Health, when you eat excess sugar, your liver can't process it properly, and it immediately turns it into fat.

On December 2, Dr Anshuman Kaushal, MD, FACS (robotic GI surgeon and obesity expert), shared a video on Instagram explaining why our body keeps storing sugar as fat. According to the surgeon, "Sugar is not sweet at all. Sugar is strategic. It hijacks insulin, fills fat cells, and leaves you blaming genetics."

Dr Kaushal used an example to explain why the body stores sugar as fat. "Imagine there are t...