From the ArcaMax Publishing, Health & Fitness Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/healthtips/s-383302-752313
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Thin Mint Cookie Blizzard at Dairy Queen
provides a blizzard of calories, officials of a U.S. non-profit group
said.
Officials at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a
non-profit health advocacy group in Washington, said the new ice cream
dessert weighs more than a pound, has more than 1,000 calories, 31
teaspoons of sugars, and provides more than a day's saturated fat.
Michael F. Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in
the Public Interest, said the Thin Mint Cookie Blizzard is like
drinking two Big Macs.
"If you were designing a product with the intent of promoting obesity
and type-2 diabetes in girls, it would look exactly like the Thin Mint
Blizzard," Jacobson said in a statement.
"A Thin Mint Cookie Blizzard is soft-serve mint and vanilla ice cream
combined with Thin Mint cookies and topped with a creme-de-menthe
flavored syrup made out of high-fructose corn syrup and containing
artificial food dyes Yellow 5 and Green 3. Even a small size has the
calories -- 540 -- and a little more saturated fat -- 12 grams -- than
a Big Mac."