Those new McDonald’s Mocha Frappes taste so good – too good. And so addicting. After a few trips through the drive-through wondering what was in them, I asked. The answer: “It’s an iced coffee.” Iced coffee can’t be that bad, right? Well, maybe if the whipped cream and chocolate topping were eliminated it might not [...]
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Fructose, Frappes…Frightening!
April 29th, 2010Are Artificial Sweeteners Making Us Fat…and Worse?
October 9th, 2009Today I ran across the published Purdue University artificial sweetener study from February, 2008. The study, which received a lot of press, compared two sets of rats: those fed yogurt with zero-calorie saccharin, others fed yogurt sweetened with glucose (a simple sugar with 15 calories/teaspoon, the same as table sugar). When both groups were later [...]
