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?

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