Giles Janise

"Butter Coffee for Weight Loss: Viral Trend or Health Hazard?"

1. Hook: The Viral Obsession It’s 7 a.m. in Los Angeles, and Sarah, a 32-year-old marketing manager, skips her usual avocado toast for a frothy cup of butter-laced coffee. "It tastes like dessert, but my fitness app says I’ve lost 5 pounds this month," she raves on TikTok. Across the U.S., butter coffee—a blend of black coffee, grass-fed butter, and MCT oil—is exploding as the "hack" for curbing hunger and burning fat. Celebrities like Halle Berry and tech bros swear by it, but nutritionists are sounding alarms. *Can drinking fat really melt fat?* Let’s dig in.