By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:13:18 +0000

I plan to share this information with my high school students. Although our school has now ban the sale of soda, power drinks and sweetened non-soda drinks, I know my students still consume large amounts of these liquid calories. It is important to stress that the introduction of high frutose corn syrup is also connected to our obesity problem. The fact that it is a banned ingredient in Germany is very interesting. I would like to have a listing of calorie content in many of the drinks available at many fast foods and coffee shops.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:26:30 +0000

Thanks for posting this. In the past couple of years I have worked hard at cutting “sweet tea” out of my diet and that’s hard considering what a tradition it is in South Carolina but I started changing my tea drinking habits when I would go out to eat with my father who is diabetic and surprisingly discovered the taste of tea that was being masked by the sugar! However I had another bad habit I recently discovered could have been contributing to my slow weight loss. I drink about two cups of coffee a day which in itself isn’t too bad but I am a cream and sugar freck. “Cream” more than sugar. The “cream” we normally use in our household is evaporated milk. I was amazed at the number of fat calories and saturated at that. I really don’t like the taste of black coffee unless it’s with a sweet dessert so as an experiment I went out last night and bought some “Silk Soy Creamer” it has 0 fat and for me is good enough. I got the flavored vanilla kind to so really I don’t even need any sugar with it! Since I don’t see a trackback feature link on your blog I will repost this response on my blog but with a link to your site and the article.

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