Although the way you take your coffee tends to be
non-negotiable, new research suggests that people who like theirs light
or sweet don't just end up drinking a bunch of empty calories, but may
also end up eating worse than people who drink plain black coffee. The
same goes for tea drinkers who add milk and sugar to the mix, but the
effect doesn't seem to be quite as extreme. Unlike in previous studies
where sweetened soda drinkers appeared to compensate for calories they
drank by eating less overall, when researchers from University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of California, San Diego,
compared the diets of 19,400 coffee and teas drinkers for a study
recently published in Public Health, they found that people tend to
simply ignore the extra milk and sugar calories they slip into their
drinks — no one's eating less at lunch because they had a splash of
creamer in their morning coffee. Compared to tea, coffee tends to be the
biggest calorie bomb, since nearly 2 out of 3 coffee drinkers use
caloric additives like sugar, milk, creamer — and let's not talk about
Frappuccinos and PSLs...
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