As I have aged, I have noticed that, I have started to be more like my french counterpart Obelix. As in, it's not that I'm fat, just my chest slipped.
Quite randomly, I've come to notice that this has some parallels to the 6-10 20oz. Mt. Dew bottles I used to drink a week.
Seems that one bottle of this wonderful green holy water comes with 275 calories, and 77.5 grams of sugar. (13.7 cal, 3.9g sugar per 1oz.)
To compare, a sweet dunkin donuts coffee has no sugar, and 10 calories for a big 14oz cup. (.7 cal, 0g sugar per 1oz.) ...okok, spice it up with 3 spoons of sugar and you still only add 18g or sugar, and 75 cal. total.
Breaking this out we get:
| MtDew | DD Coffee | |
|---|---|---|
| cal./oz | 13.75 | 0.7 |
| g sugar/oz | 3.9 | 0 |
| serving | 20oz bottle | 14 oz med.cup (3sp sugar) |
| cal | 275 | 85 |
| g sugar | 77.5 | 18 |
This basically means that for every med cup of coffee I drink instead of a Mt. Dew, it's 1.6 miles ~less~ I need to run per *day*.
So drinking coffee can be considered a fairly good diet?!?!
Post Note:
Now to make matters worse, it would seem that Coffee's Jolt Just an Illusion?!?!
Also, on the "it's frigging fattening" topic, in Aug '09 NYC's Health Department started posting signs around the city reminding folks that soda is really not the choice beverage if you have any interest in *not* getting that "American Silhouette" look. It's an affective add.... (ick!)
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