Drink Your Daily Caloric Requirement in One Sitting

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Holy Dairy Cow… I saw this over at Yahoo Health and it is pretty stunning. Why would a company with any sense of social responsibility market something like this? Ummm… money. Shame on Baskin Robbins.

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“Instead of giving Socrates hemlock, they should have just forced him to drink one of these,” he said. “Could this 2,300-calorie liquid monstrosity be the worst drink on the planet?” We’ve seen a few 1000-calorie shakes, but this is twice as bad as anything we’ve ever seen.

The menu description may sound simple enough: “A blend of HEATH Bar Crunch and Jamoca® ice creams, chopped HEATH Bar pieces and caramel, topped with whipped cream and chopped HEATH Bar pieces.” But the ingredient list reveals a much more complicated story. Methyl paraben, propylene glycol, polysorbate 80: You’d need a degree in chemical engineering just to have a shot at cracking this brain-freezing code. All told, the list of ingredients runs seven inches and 73 ingredients long. Whatever happened to the days when a milkshake was just ice cream and milk?

As unsavory as this list of indecipherable emulsifiers, preservatives, and artificial flavorings may be, the most concerning part comes when you consider the sheer nutritional impact of this weapon of mass construction.

To give you some perspective, slurping up one 32-ounce Heath Shake is the caloric equivalent of eating 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, the saturated fat equivalent of scarfing 60 slices of bacon, and will give you the same sugar rush as working your way through 13 Haagen Dazs Vanilla and Almond ice cream bars.

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The moral of this story is simple- you MUST look at the nutrition info on stuff you buy at restaurants. I really doubt that many people know how many calories they are eating when they buy something. I also doubt that most people care. That is the scary part.