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If you’re heading to Starbucks for your annual holiday mocha, you may want to think twice. While your expresso with steamed milk, mocha sauce and peppermint flavored syrup may be a nice treat when we’re in the midst of a marathon day of Christmas shopping, it probably has more calories and fat than you think. More
Yes, we all like our Starbucks fix from time to time (tall mocha latte, extra hot, please), but it’s hard to ignore just how unhealthy some of their coffees are (like their pumpkin spice latte which we reported really should be a dessert due to the gross amounts of sugar in there). That’s why we were pretty excited to learn that our favorite–although often sinful–coffee shop is expanding with a chain of “wholesome” foods and beverages. More
Remember that time when I sort of ruined the pumpkin spice latte for you? I’m sorry about that. That was mean. What I should have done was also offer you an alternative, other that “weep because you will never again enjoy autumn.” So now, I am making amends with this recipe for your own, less lethal version of the fall favorite. More
Something about fall makes it seem like the perfect time to head to your nearest coffee shop and indulge on a hot favored latte (even though recently, we sadly uncovered the sugary truth about some of our favorite autumn drinks, like Starbuck’s pumpkin spice latte). Still, coffee is the second most valuable commodity in the world and 50% of Americans drink it everyday, totaling over 330 million cups a day. More
We all love to stop at Starbucks for a morning boost or afternoon snack, but do you know how many calories are in those iced coffees, espressos and Frappuccinos? Just how skinny is their skinny latte? And where do you find the nutrition facts for the soy in their soy chai lattes? More
Coffee has made me do some stupid things. Like spend over $800 a year to get my morning fix. I’ve spilled it on the floor of a brand-spanking new car (turns out, I didn’t really understand how the cup holder was supposed to work). It’s made me so jittery that I once tripped and knocked over a poster board during the middle of a presentation. And, like a good writer, I’ve even spilled it on my laptop from time to time.
I did all of this in the name of being more awake, more lively, more brain-powered, of course (after all, I someday aspire to be the next J.K. Rowling). But researchers now say all of this caffeine was stunting my creative growth. More
As I stood in line to pay for my tall, decaf, non-fat, extra-hot mocha the other day at Starbucks, I was tempted by an orange-cranberry scone in the pastry case that seemed to be staring at me. “How bad can a scone be?” I wondered. “It’s not like it’s one of those glazed apple fritters or oversized blueberry muffins in there,” I rationalized. But before I could make up my mind, the perky Starbucks girl was asking for my debit card. Lucky for me; when I got home, I decided to research that beckoning scone, and it turns out, it has a whopping 490 calories and 18 grams of fat. Crisis averted. More
We’ve already told you that Starbucks’ Trenta-size drinks are bigger than your stomach, which is scary in an abstract, “I know this is bad for me, but I might still want 31-ounces of coffee if I don’t think about it too much” kind of way. But this video, from YouTube user Rob Cockerham, really helps us visualize the size the coffeehouse chain’s largest cups, which comfortably holds an entire 750 ml bottle of wine: More
Last week, Lauren Slayton, Blisstree’s resident nutritionist, gave us 10 foods we didn’t know contained (so much) salt. Today she’s back, and she’s not sugar-coating anything:
I’m not anti-sugar. I’m staunchly pro-chocolate and I’m sipping coffee with agave nectar (which is pretty much sugar) as I blog. (Obviously, I’m also pro-Joe.) But we have a problem: Yes – you, me, all of us. We’re getting sugar from places we don’t necessarily realize. Though you may know why salt is bad (high blood pressure, bloat) or why pesticides are bad, you may not know why, for a healthy person, sugar is bad. Simply stated, sweet begets sweet. The more sugar you have (and that means sugar, honey, molasses, evaporated cane juice, sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, etc.), the more you’ll crave, which can lead to fatigue, obesity, diabetes, depression, heart disease, a suppressed immune system, and a host of other serious health problems. So you owe it to yourself to know where sugar lurks in order to do something about it. The American Heart Association suggests that women keep added sugar to 25 grams daily and men slightly more (unfair!) to 37.5 grams daily. Fine, but do you know how much a gram of sugar is in real terms? One teaspoon of sugar equals a little more than 4 grams. Here’s our gallery of ten places where sugar is lurking in your food (and drink). More
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We’ve noted the incredible caloric damage of Starbucks Trenta beverages before, but an infographic we found on Huff Po this morning compares their 31-ounce drink cups to the size of a human stomach, illustrating just how ridiculous the gargantuan beverage is. Apparently, the average stomach has a capacity of about 900 mL; just shy of the 916 mL held in one of Starbucks Trenta-sized beverages: More
Last week, nutritionist and Foodtrainers founder Lauren Slayton gave us her New Year’s Detox Diet: 7-Day Food Cleanse. Today she’s back with ten foods (plus condiments and medications) that you didn’t know contained so much damn salt. If you liked our previous posts: 8 Foods You Didn’t Know Contained Meat and 5 Foods You Didn’t Know Contained Gluten, then you’ll want to read on.
Lauren says: “We all have a friend or family member who, like my husband, often reaches for the salt shaker even before tasting their food. Perhaps this person is chided for their overzealous shaking; perhaps not. But the truth is that even the most serious salt-lover isn’t in danger of approaching the recommended one-teaspoon-a-day of salt from that habit. Instead, have you ever considered criticizing the amount of spaghetti sauce someone uses? Maybe you should.” Here’s our gallery of ten sneaky salt sources lurking in your food: More
Earlier this week, we posted about McDonald’s recent addition of oatmeal to the menu, skeptical of their marketing slogan, “when wholesome meets delicious” (we don’t consider sugary toppings ‘wholesome’). Still, many of our readers weren’t so perturbed by the overall nutrition value of McDonald’s new breakfast – “I personally consider under-300 calories to be a perfectly reasonable amount to eat for breakfast, even if you’re on a diet,” said one commenter. “And the nutrition facts aren’t so terribly different than when I make truly 100% natural oatmeal for myself at home (1/2 cup pre-cooked oats, cooked in water with 1/4 cup raisins and topped with 1 tsp brown sugar and a couple of tablespoons of nonfat milk).” More
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We’re running out of reasons to hate Starbucks, now that the corporate coffeehouse has announced their commitment to using 100% reusable or recyclable cups by 2015. Their cups are currently non-recyclable in most cities, due to their waterproof interior lining, but Starbucks says that it thinks more paper recyclers could process the paper cups. Given that their consumers currently use one billion paper cups and one billion plastic cups every year, we hope they’re right. More
