The tutor asks, “How much weight loss, theoretically, might I realize from giving up cream in my coffee?”

It seems I’ve been served with a high cholesterol warning: likely, I should bring it down. With saturated fat being implicated as a potential cause of high cholesterol, the cream in my coffee gains attention. It’s got 1.5g of fat per Tbsp, 1g of which is saturated. Although I’ve not been told directly, I’m probably best to give it up: I already have.

Let’s imagine I use(d) 1 Tbsp cream per cup of coffee. Commonly, I drink 8 cups of coffee per day, so would use 8 Tbsp cream, each of which is 20 calories. That’s 160 calories per day, and 160*365=58400 calories per year. One pound of fat is about 3500 calories, so the 58400 calories could translate to around 58400/3500 = 16.7 pounds. I might, theoretically, “lose” 16.7 pounds per year by stopping using cream in my coffee.

While I’ve given it up, I loved having cream in my coffee.

Source:

dairyland.ca

mayoclinic.org

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