On social networks, it’s up to the one who will take the craziest photo of the freakshake (an XXL size milkshake). In large mugs, scoops of ice cream and whipped cream are covered with sweets, cookies, brownies or even chocolate bars and more rarely fruit… But now freakshakes are now on the dessert menu of many restaurants or fast food outlets and nutritionists are sounding the alarm. Because eating (not to say gorging yourself) 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 nutrition labeling on 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 around 3 hours to burn calories.
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