After attending that wellness seminar at Pure Yoga last week, I was reminded of just how sharp Oz “Nutritionist to the Fabulous” Garcia is, and how I need to listen to him on a more regular basis.

To me, and a lot of other New Yorkers, he is the original Dr. Oz. He has a bit of an edge to him, dresses like he just stepped out of the head-to-toe-black issue of GQ, and is such a go-get-em adrenaline junkie that he freely admits to being the type of “urban animal” who dives for his BlackBerry first thing in the morning.

So, in theory, he’d be totally into the Wyoming-sized “Trenta” coffees Starbucks is about to unleash on the world, right?

Wrong, wrong, wrong my dear mama friend.

In an eye-popping piece for the Huffington Post, Oz heaps abuse on the new size, which contains roughly the equivalent of four – FOUR! – 8 oz cups of java.

The problem with the larger than life Trenta, per Oz, is essentially two-fold: One, along with the coffee, you’re imbibing that much more cream and sugar (or the fakey-fake artificial sweetener stuff, which, IMHO, is actually worse), jacking up your daily calorie count. And two, you’re shooting your caffeine consumption through the freaking roof.

I always learn a lot when I read what Oz has written, but I was shocked to see him connect the medical research dots between caffeine overconsumption and possible diabetes down the road.

That’s pretty scary. And so is a 31-ounce cup of joe.

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