Continuing on with America’s worst foods we venture into the beverages, Starbucks has made its fortune selling some of the nation’s most expensive coffee, cappuccinos, lattes and teas. They also made their fortune from selling some of the best tasting flavored coffees in the nation and that is part of the problem. When it tastes good we have a hard time saying no to it. So because their beverages are so addicting we tend to drink more of them than we normally would.
Today we know that coffee loaded with caffeine is not so good for you but we also know that decaffeinated is not 100 percent caffeine free either, but that it is better to drink than the latter. Coffee isn’t all that bad for you; it acts as a natural mild stimulant for your energy and a natural laxative As well. Coffee also has the ability to flush out the body and to relax tired achy muscles. There are a lot more benefits of drinking coffee that we could get into.
But this isn’t about the health benefits of coffee. It is about the number 8 place on the list of what you should stay away from to remain as healthy as possible. The Starbucks Venti (20 oz.) White Chocolate Mocha with 2% milk and whipped cream is more than just a large cup of coffee. Although it may do the trick in the mornings, what have we learned about healthy eating during the first meal of our day? Is it really smart to put something that is worst than a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with Cheese into our bodies first thing in the morning?
Without even overstating the facts, this coffee beverage is seriously worst than the Quarter Pounder mentioned above. Not many people have room in their diets for the 580 calories and 15 grams of saturated fat that this insane coffee beverage delivers. Just imagine if you will just what drinking this very beverage every morning on your way to work with its 15 grams of saturated fat could possibly be doing to your heart and arteries.
If you drink this every morning, as we stated above we get addicted to our favorite foods, and drink this for months or even years you could be setting your body up for the biggest shut down of its existence. Seriously this beverage although it is a “picker upper” for the mornings, is a serious threat to your health. For just the little kick of energy you will get from the caffeine in it you could go for something a lot smaller and less dangerous to your health.
Caffeine is not the issue here folks, it’s all the extra stuff that is put in the drink to make it “original” but addicting. Seriously are you drinking it for the caffeine or the taste? Well in this case it’s the taste because you could very well get the same caffeine high from a regular cup of coffee with a double shot. So no more has your morning routine included waking by drinking caffeine, now you are waking to chocolate and caffeine and saturated fat as well as some serious calories.
I bet you would yell at your kids if you woke one morning to see them chow down on a cup of caffeinated coffee, a candy bar dipped in lard! So why if you would not give that to your kids for breakfast would you allow yourself to put this into your body. Well there is a bit of good news though if you have trouble putting the Venti down, just order the beverage with nonfat milk and no whipped cream and you will lose 130 of the calories and two-thirds of the bad fat.
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