Starbucks offers a wide variety of high calorie and high fat drinks and food choices. Is Starbucks making you fat? This is the subject of Episode #2 of the Great Fat Loss Debate with Scott Colby, Scott Tousignant and special guest, Kevin Gianni. Is Starbucks contributing to the rising obesity trend in adults and children? Well their menu would certainly suggest it. A lot of their pastries and snacks are nearly 500 calories. Some of their drinks can be nearly 1000 calories depending on what you order.

For example, a piece of no sugar added banana nut coffee cake has 480 calories and 28 grams of fat. You may have thought that this would be a healthy option based on the words, “no sugar added” but you would be wrong.

A grande peppermint white chocolate mocha with 2% milk and whipped cream is 530 calories and 18 grams of fat. So if you have the no sugar added coffee cake and a grande peppermint white mocha with whipped cream, you’ve consumed 1010 calories and 46 grams of fat. Wow!

Of course, there are ways to make your drinks healthier or less healthy by the size of the drink, the type of milk, the type of syrup, whether or not you add whipped cream, etc. So then it’s a matter of personal responsibility. It is up to you to be responsible for your own health and make wise choices.

I personally go to Starbucks almost every day, but I usually order a black coffee.

Should Starbucks be doing more to help fight the cause against obesity? They do a nice job listing nutrition information on their website - www.starbucks.com. Should they be doing more?

You want to know what we think? Well you’ll have to listen to Scott, Kevin and I debate the topic.

Simply click on the audio player below to listen to this weeks Great Fat Loss Debate and then take a moment to share your thoughts and feelings about the podcast.

What would you like Starbucks to do to help combat the rising trend in obesity?

Please share your comments below.

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I recently did an interview with Rob Poulos, who is the author of Fat Burning Furnace. A lot of the principles that Rob shared are ones that will serve you well if you’re looking to get a flat stomach.

Among the topics we covered:

The absolute best nutritional strategies for burning stubborn body fat…

The one thing in the gym that you maybe doing right now that may be causing you to actually gain belly fat…

Some techniques to get your abs lean, strong and sculpted…

And much more.

Check out the interview below!

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Welcome to the first episoide of The Great Fat Loss debate, a weekly podcast with Scott Tousignant and Scott Colby. This will be a weekly podcast, every Thursday, where Scott Tousignant and I will talk about the hottest, most controversial topics in the fat loss industry. Our topic for episode #1, the ever popular debate about low carb - high protein diets. Each podcast will be about 15 minutes.

Listen in as I rattle off the ingredients of Kellogg’s Smart Start cereal - oat bran, sugar, rice, raisins, high fructose corn syrup, glycerin, dextrose, malt flavor, potassium chloride, salt, cinnamon, coconut and palm kernel oil, baking soda, ascorbic acid, niacinamide, zinc oxide, wheat starch, calcium pantothenate, reduced iron.

And here is a list of ingredients in whole wheat bread - Whole wheat flour, water, yeast, sugar/glucose-fructose, canola or soybean oil, wheat gluten, salt, sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate, calcium propionate, ammonium chloride, calcium sulphate, May contain acetylated tartaric acid esters of mono and diglycerides, calcium carbonate, monoglycerides, calcium iodate.

What a list!

Are these foods healthy for you? Well that’s up for debate.

I would love for you to listen to our podcast and then let your voice be heard. Share your opinion about low carb - high proten diets under the Comments link below.

You can listen to the podcast by clicking the play button or downloading to your computer. Enjoy!

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I recently did an interview with Mike Geary, author of The Truth Aboout Six-Pack Abs. I always lke talking to Mike because we share a lot of the same training philosophies. In fact, in my recent abs transformation, I used some of the same training strategies that he covers in his book The Truth About Six-Pack Abs.

Here are some of the questions Mike answered on the call…

How to get rid of your spare tire around your belly…

The life threatening dangers of having excess belly fat…

Why crunches are a waste of time when it comes to getting a six-pack…

Why long, low intensity cardio workouts won’t help you lose belly fat…

This was one of the calls I did in my recent teleseminar series called Amazing Abs Formula.

Enjoy listening to this call and please post your comments or opinions below.

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The Bodyweight 500 is a great workout that I first learned from Craig Ballantyne, creator of the Turbulence Training System. You’re basically going to take 10 bodyweight exercises and do 50 reps of each one as fast as you can. This will total 500 reps. Get your stopwatch out and time yourself because it will be fun to see if you can beat your score the next time out.

There are some great things about this workout. You can do it anywhere - so you don’t need to belong to a gym. As you can see from my video, I did it outside. It works your entire upper and lower body and heart rate. You are also working your abs really hard. And this is a quick workout - it doesn’t take forever to do.

Craig Ballantyne has come out with the original Bodyweight 500 as part of his Turbulence Training program. I put a variation of it in the video which I hope you will watch.

Here are the exercises I did (50 reps of each as fast as you can).

Squats
Push Ups
Tuck Jumps
Spiderman Climb (25 each leg)
Modified Pull Ups (or Body Rows)
Step Jumps (or 25 one legged step ups each leg)
T-Stabilization (25 each side)
Walking Lunges (25 each leg)
Close Grip Push Ups
Squat Jumps

Now if you are new to exercise, you might want to modify this to the Bodyweight 250 and do 25 reps of each exercise. Also, 50 modified pull ups are pretty challenging, so you might want to split them up and do 25 in the middle of the circuit as shown and then finish the circuit with 25 more.

One last thing, the final day to enter Craig Ballantyne’s Turbulence Training Transformation contest is Monday, January 21, 2008. The contest is open only to those who have purchased Turbulence Training, and post their before/after photos on the Turbulence Training Member’s site.

Don’t worry, when you buy Turbulence Training and enter the contest, you get a free 3 month membership so you can record your transformation.

There are 3 big prizes for the winners.

Grand Prize - $2000 & a 3-year Platinum TT Membership

Second Place - $1000 & a 2-year Platinum TT Membership

Third Place - $500 & a 1-Year Platinum TT Membership

So go ahead and take a peek at Turbulence Training and enter yourself in the contest.

And try the Bodyweight 500 workout below. Feel free to post your comments on how you did in the workout.

By the way, the pull-up straps in the video are a piece of equipment called The Jungle Gym and they can be purchased online from Lifeline USA.

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