According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Starbucks Frappuccino is equivalent in calories to a McDonald's coffee plus 11 of their creamers and 29 packets of sugar. A venti Caffè Mocha with whipped cream is calorically equivalent to a Quarter Pounder with cheese. This is the glory of American fast food: it can even make espresso drinks fattening.
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Frappuccinos Make You Fat
Category: Culture
Posted on: September 13, 2006 9:55 AM, by Jonah Lehrer
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Not EVERYTHING, just processed foods. They are not adding corn syrup to your celery or loaf of bread.
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Not celery, but most packaged bread does have corn syrup.
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Even the thread title is fat. What is that apostrophe for?
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Thanks for the correction. The title has gone on a diet.
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It's good that you worry, us-ians! I was really shocked the last time I went to the US by the number of fat people I saw all around. "I see fat people", was my frightened comment to colleagues. And not just fat, but faaaat. It didn't help, of course, that I was coming from France, which is atypical in the opposite sense (after two years, I still haven't found their secret, but if I do I'll let you know).
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Andres, I think you are seeing what you want to see. According to the most recent studies from 2003, 42% of French people are obese or overweight. Granted, that number still is lower than Americans but the rate of obesity is increasing so quickly that French people will be fatter than Americans by 2020.
Perception is everything and you may have been alarmed by US obesity but you were probably also looking harder for it than you look in France because it reaffirmed what you either read prior or wanted to believe.
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Everything in America is saturated in saturated fats, dipped in oil, injected with carbs, and deep fried in peanut oil.
Most "groceries" sold in your standard grocery store qualify as deserts, in that they have sugar added. Anything with sugar added is a desert. Corn syrup, fructose, high-fructose, glucose, dextrose, blah blah blah.
Posted by: Robert P. | September 13, 2006 10:27 AM