For crying out loud. Calories do not make you fat. LACK OF EXERCISE makes you fat. It is perfectly ok to have a Cappucino everyday. However, unless you exercise, those calories will be converted into fat and you will put on weight. If you exercise regularly, not only will you burn more calories (cardio exercise especially good at this), but weight work helps to increase your metabolism and allows you to increase your body's efficiency at burning calories. It is not simply about calorie intake.

It is exactly this kind of misleading statistical gibberish that leads to panic legislation (albeit by an intellectually vacant government) such as giving obese people food vouchers to eat more healthily.

Exercise for 1 hour per day 4 times per week at a reasonable intensity and the weight will come off and stay off, regardless of what you eat.

Mike Gow, Beijing, China

Anyone who needs whipped cream on their coffee clearly knows nothing about coffee. Why would you want to ruin a decent coffee like that?

Bianca Summons, Maidenhead, Berkshire

Headlines seen in papers regarding this "The COFFEE that contains a third of daily calorie intake" and "CAPPUCCINO can contain over 500 calories".

I understand this makes good headlines but "a large white chocolate mocha with whip made with whole milk" is NOT a cappuccino. A cappuccino is an espresso with steam-frothed milk in a coffee cup (a coffee-cup sized coffee cup at that) and a coffee is, well, coffee beans brewed with water in the manner of your choice.

So headline should be "Frothy milk and sugar drink with cream" contains lots of calories. Which, as Jessica has already noted, is not going to surprise anyone with half a brain.

Sophie, Ennis, Ireland

White chocolate, whip cream and full fat milk, of course it's going to be full of calories! Most people who visit coffee houses usually go for a simple latte with semi skimmed milk. Once in a while a high fat drink is treat and the price, has this journalist been into a pub recently? When coffee gets more expensive than beer, then we can complain. I agree starbucks is expensive compared to ther coffee houses, there is a simple solution, if it's too fatty and expensive, then dont go, spend your money somewhere else!

Jessica, Sheffield,