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Friday, March 23, 2007

BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM IS AWESOME!!!
I HAVE TO TYPE IN CAPS BECAUSE IT'S THEIR ICE CREAM ESPECIALLY THE FLAVOUR "PHISH FOOD" IS JUST TOO GOOD!
WE ALL WENT TO BEN & JERRY'S ON TUESDAY 20/3/07 AT AROUND 4PM AFTER GOING TO PASIR RIS PARK TO COMPLETE OUR GEOG ASSIGNMENT AND THEN WE SAW BEN & JERRY'S AND JUST HAD TO GO THERE!
BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM ALL TASTE WONDERFUL BUT IT IS FATTENING HENCE IT SHOULD BE TAKEN SPARINGLY...... PHISH FOOD ALONE HAS 13g OF FATS IN TOTAL, OUT OF WHICH 9g ARE SATURATED FATS AND TOTAL CARB OF 37g AND 22g OF SUGAR! THAT IS REALLY UNHEALTHY. HOWEVER, READING UP, I FOUND THAT THE MOST FATTENING ICE CREAM IN BEN & JERRY'S IS PEANUT BUTTER CUP ICE CREAM WITH A TOTAL FAT OF 26g DOUBLE THAT OF PHISH FOOD! IT'S NOT JUST BEN&JERRY'S ORIGINAL ICE CREAM THAT IS UNHEALTHY, BUT ALL ICE CREAM!
UNHEALTHY FACTS ON ICE CREAM ON THE WHOLE:
- One scoop of premium ice cream has 250 to 300 calories and a half-day's worth of saturated fat, and people usually have more than a scoop
- Some ice cream may even contain about two day's worth of saturated fat- containing cholestrol which can cause gallstones or coronary heart disease (which i learnt from the Bio textbook)
- ice cream also contains a lot of sugar causing many people nowadays to get diabetes
SO NOW WE KNOW HOW UNHEALTHY ICE CREAM IS, THAT'S WHY IT SHOULD BE EATEN SPARINGLY, REALLY SPARINGLY.