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There are calls in the UK to ban the [last / latest] phenomenon to shock health and nutrition experts. The campaign group Action on Sugar wants to [bin / ban] the "freakshake" - a "monstrous" milkshake [packed / peaked] with "grotesque" levels of sugar. Action on Sugar said the shake should be banned from restaurants and cafes as it can [contents / contain] up to 1,280 calories. An adult would have to go jogging for three hours to [burnt / burn] off those calories. Freakshakes are usually full of [sweetie / sweetened] whipped cream, chocolate bars, mini-doughnuts and even [sliced / slices] of cake. One freakshake [tested / testing] contained 39 teaspoons of sugar. This is more than six times the [recommendation / recommended] daily amount of sugar for a 10-year-old, and the [equal / equivalent] of four cans of Coke.

Freakshakes [originated / origins] in Australia and spread around the world on social media. Two restaurants [mentioned / mentioning] in the Action on Sugar report fought back and said they took nutrition [serious / seriously] . One said it was adhering to a national sugar-reduction programme and was not [targeting / aiming] children with excessively high-calorie [shakes / stakes] . A restaurant spokesperson said: "Freakshakes only [feature / future] on our main menu and are not targeted [on / at] children. We share our nutritional information online for guests to access....We regularly work with our suppliers to [expire / explore] ways we can reduce sugar levels in our dishes." A public [healthy / health] spokesman said the government needed to put a limit of 300kcal per [serving / serve] on all shakes.