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Chart of the day: coffee vs fat

I love how the chart below shows how many calories there are per caffeine amount, e.g. a black caffeinated cup of coffee, as compared with other products, e.g. a glass of wine, french fries, a Big Mac and...the Starbucks products.

Be sure you don't miss the following quote from this old post of mine, culled from the best - and only - book on fat that I've ever read, namely Fat ““ The Anthropology Of An Obsession:

Two new products, the Strawberries & Crà¨me Frappuccino Blended Crà¨me and the Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino Blended Crà¨me recently earned the “Food Porn of the Month Award“ from the Center for the Science in the Public Interest's (CPSI) Nutrition Action Healthletter. Past winners of this award include the Coconut Crà¨me Frappuccino and the Vanilla Crà¨me Frappucino. This award is not for the best hard-core food ad but for food products the CPSI considers to be impressively unhealthy. A 20-ounce venti of either of these products has over 600 calories and while the Strawberries & Crà¨me has 7 grams of fat, the Double Chocolate Chip Frappuccino contains 16 grams of fat. (Venti means “really big“ for those not fluent in American coffee café Italian). Neither drink actually contains coffee; the Nutrition Action Healthletter calls them “fattuccinos“ ““ more like milk shakes than coffee.