For Chinese people with a Chinese stomach, the most addictive thing is not sweets, but carbohydrates, commonly known as a "carb stomach". However, this is also a result of sugar addiction.

When you eat these delicacies made from refined rice and flour, apart from the water content, almost all of the remainder is converted into glucose. One bowl of rice is one-third sugar.

Therefore, whenever someone says "just normal carbs are fine", this statement is very misleading. Today's food industry, combined with the Chinese carb stomach, means that as long as one doesn't consciously maintain moderation regarding carbs, the diet is almost certainly high in carbohydrates.

And almost all chronic diseases are closely related to a high-carb diet. Cardiovascular diseases, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, inflammation...