Yes: Yes, you can. Sweets are made of fats, sugar, carbohydrates, and proteins. All of these can go through various metabolic pathways to deposit as fat or burn off as energy (glucose) with intermediaries along the way. You can learn more in an introductory biochemistry textbook or at this cool site: http://biochemical-pathways.com/#/map/1 It's just too complicated to fit in the limited space here.
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