Coffee and tea can never make you fat. Your reducing diet allows you to consume them, if you wish, until you splash when you walk. But note that this sky’s-the-limit attitude applies only to black coffee or clear tea. Drunk in this form, these inspiring infusions rate a flat zero for calories. Add cream and sugar, however, and the calories go Spitfiring heavenward. It’s the fixin’s that make you fat.

One teaspoon of sugar and two tablespoons of coffee cream give a cup of coffee a rating of 85 calories-largely fat calories, exactly the type the reducer needs least. Many a sparkling-eyed and clear-headed coffee drunkard thinks nothing of consuming five or six cups a day. The cream and sugar in these cups of coffee represent about an even trade for the calories where you can eat your pie à la mode. This is a case where you can eat your pie and have your coffee too, if you take it black.

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