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Aside from wasting money, that amount of excess sugar also kills you similarly to alcohol. Diabetes, fatty liver disease, obesity, etc. Well I guess it's also wasting money due to the increased health care costs but one might also argue an early death saves money so YMMV.

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It is interesting that soda (i.e. Coke, Pepsi) sales took a huge hit over the past decade as people became more health conscious and looked for healthier options, and yet people will still consume 2-4 times that many calories and sugars in a sweetened coffee drink.

I've never understood why they don't offer all the same sweet drinks, but with something like Splenda instead of sugar.

Perhaps it's better this way, otherwise I'd probably be at Starbucks a lot more often.

Oddly enough, the zero-calorie (or very low calorie) sweeteners are almost as fattening as sugar.

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