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29 Jul 2009 22:29

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Biz: Cancer group: They should call frappuccinos “fatuccinos”

  • 561 calories number of calories a single Venti Dark Berry Mocha Frappuccino from Starbucks has – drinking a lot of these will make you very fat
  • 200+ calories calorie amounts that many iced coffee drinks have, according to the World Cancer Research Fund, acting as an obesity watchdog source

06 Jan 2009 11:57

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Offbeat: Smoking doesn’t make you cool. It makes you fat.

  • But only if you’re a teenage girl. A new study from Finland finds that if you’re female and smoked when you were younger, you’re more likely to have a little flab when you’re older. The weird part: It didn’t seem to affect men’s weight. source