Thanks to Seth Godin and the New York Times for pointing out what I already suspected for sometime.  Everytime my son guzzles down a Frappuccino at Starbucks he might as well be at the local McDonald’s fast food chain asking to be Supersized.

"Most people feel pretty virtuous at Starbucks. It’s not really fast food, at least that’s what we tell ourselves. Today’s Times reports otherwise. It seems that the Large Java Frappuccino has 29 packets of sugar and the equivalent of 11 creamers in it. In one, not in a dozen. If you watched them mix it up, you’d feel different about it, no doubt."

I wonder what eating nothing but Starbucks fare for a month would do to a person…maybe they’d be in worse shape than if they at McDonald’s fast food for the same time period.

"If you thought you were being nutritionally virtuous by stopping at Starbucks instead of McDonald’s, the Center for Science in the Public Interest says, “Wrong!’’

A venti — or 20-ounce — Caffè Mocha with whipped cream has 490 calories, equivalent to a Quarter Pounder with cheese. And a 24-ounce Java Chip Frappuccino with whipped cream has 650 calories, not to mention almost an entire day’s allowance of saturated fat.

According to the center, a nutritional advocacy group, the Frappuccino is equivalent in calories to a McDonald’s coffee plus 11 of their creamers and 29 packets of sugar.

No wonder people are getting more and more overweight….they’re hanging out at Starbucks and guzzling down all kinds of sweetened drinks.