

This way you still get the caffeine hit and other potential benefits of the coffee without the calories. If you grab a coffee between a meal or mid meals, you would be better to choose black or herbal tea, or if you must have coffee, black coffee. And remember, "no one needs a large coffee" super-sized coffee cups equate to a small meal's worth of calories and are often the reason why people cannot lose weight, particularly if they drink two or more of these each day. Ideally the body needs at least two to three hours without food between meals, which means that milk coffees including flat whites, capps and lattes need to be enjoyed with a meal or mid-morning or afternoon snack, not as an extra. There is nothing wrong with enjoying a cup or two of coffee each day, but the way you take your coffee and the time you enjoy it is crucial to control your caffeine intake, insulin and glucose levels as well as your calorie intake. This means that if you sip milk-based coffee over a number of hours each day, you will be more likely to store fat over time.Ĭoffee lovers: choose wisely. A constant stream of sugar from the milk in a large or Grande-size coffee is adding a significant number of calories into your diet, and studies have also shown that feeding the body with a constant stream of sugar, even if it is from lactose, the sugar in milk, can result in fat deposits in the liver. What is important to remember is that these benefits come from the coffee, not the 200 millilitres of milk, sugar and syrup many of us add to our coffee each day. Research has repeatedly shown that drinking coffee can help to lower blood pressure and reduce blood fats, and yes caffeine may even promote fat burning. Now, before you spin into a fury at the thought of ditching the one thing that gets you up in the morning, yes it is true, there are health benefits associated with regular coffee consumption. Now inside those containers there could be a skim cappuccino chai latte or even a soy-mocha but what I see is calories, extra liquid calories that few of us need. If you walk down any city street in Australia, you will see hundreds of people clutching a takeaway coffee cup. If you walk down the streets of Paris on any weekday morning, you will see sleek Parisians clutching a briefcase or designer handbag and perhaps the newspaper.
