“Iced versions of normal coffee such as frappuccinos contain so many calories that they increase people’s chances of becoming overweight, the second biggest cause of cancer after smoking, according to the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).”
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Calories in iced coffees increase risk of cancer, experts find | Society | The Guardian
When I worked at a well-known coffee chain eight years ago, where my hair was often formed into dreadlocks covered in sweet iced coffee due to blender explosions, we had a laminated list of the calorie content of the drinks behind the counter. So we knew, but we were not encouraged to share this information with the customers. Sometimes people would unknowingly (well, maybe knowingly. What did they really think was in a half liter of sweet brown sludge, topped with whipped cream?) order a thousand calories of drink and snack in one go and I would shudder as I handed it across the counter, feeling like some kind of drug dealer, facilating their ruin.
(That said, the way this article is all ‘coffee=cancer, OMG’ is pretty lame. Will tomorrow reveal THE TRUTH ABOUT MUFFINS?)
