American coffee consumption is up 5 percent this year, with 83 percent of adults drinking it, according to the National Coffee Association’s 2013 National Coffee Drinking Trends report.

The difficulty, nutritionists say, is that only half of regular coffee drinkers are picking brewed coffee, consumption of which is down 7 percent from 2012.

“The old days of buying a cup of coffee and putting a packet of sugar in it are far behind us,” said Jane Hurley, senior nutritionist for the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

Instead, 31 percent (about the same as last year) opt for gourmet drinks such as cappuccinos and lattes. Many go even fancier. A 2009 survey of orders in New York City by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene found two-thirds of Starbucks customers and a quarter of Dunkin’ Donuts customers picked blended coffee drinks, which use more milk, flavored syrups and whipped cream.

Those drinks pack a higher calorie count — on average 240 calories, versus 75 for brewed coffee with cream and sugar, said Pat Fiducia, chief executive for CalorieKing Publications, which tracks nutrition information for restaurant items. But many contain even more calories, sugar and fat.

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Popular U.S. dating site, OkCupid.com lets online daters pay $4.95 (£3) to hide anyone who classes themselves ‘curvy’, ‘skinny’, ‘thin’, ‘jacked’ or ‘used up’ among other body types.

‘While it will probably be common knowledge to many internet dating aficionados, OkCupid’s premium search options are eyebrow-raising in an era of tolerance and political correctness,’ writes Kermalmag.com journalist James Cook, who spotted the function.

OkCupid also allows its ‘A-list members’ – who pay a monthly subscription fee of between $4.49 and $9.95 – to filter people by both looks and figure.

You can select people in a drop-down menu who have body types such as ‘thin’, ‘skinny’, ‘overweight and ‘curvy’.

You can also filter people based on their attractiveness rating, as ranked by other users.

An anonymous OkCupid user added: ‘I’ve been using OkCupid for just over a year now, and it’s pretty disconcerting to think men have the ability to filter me out by my body type.

However, the function is still placing a lot of trust in people’s accurate description of themselves. I myself have been lucky that every guy I’ve met from the site has looked their pictures, but others I know have had some horrible surprises when they meet in person.’

‘Ultimately, what freaks me out the most is the kind of person that would pay to exercise that degree of control over their results. To me, that suggests that the weird and wonderful world of online dating might not be for you.’

Rowan Pelling added: ‘OkCupid is clearly the Abercrombie & Fitch of dating sites, allowing curvy types to be screened out of supposed A-List members searches.

‘All I can say is that you’re pretty dumb and Z-list if you allow screening so prejudiced that some brainless body-fascist can screen out all plus-size suitors: goodbye Marilyn Monroe, Sophie Dahl, Lena Dunham, Gerard Depardieu, James Corden, Seth Rogen.’

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