On social networks, it’s the one who will take the photo of the most insane freakshake (an XXL-sized milshake). In large mugs, scoops of ice cream and whipped cream are covered with candies, cookies, brownies or even chocolate bars and more rarely fruit … But now the freakshakes are invited to the dessert menu of many restaurants or fast-food restaurants and nutritionists are sounding the alarm. Because eating (not to say gorging) a freakshake is equivalent to swallowing 35 teaspoons sugar… or to drink 5 cans of soda.
Faced with this “grotesque level of sugar and calories”, the group “Action on Sugar“which brings together British specialists in sugar and its effects on health, calls for the introduction of clear and compulsory nutritional labeling in all menus. And calls for a ban on preparing milkshakes over 300 calories in restaurants.
For its part, the British Heart Federation estimated that after eating a freakshake, a 25-year-old man would need to run for about 3 hours to burn calories.
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