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11 cups of milk tea per day is pretty bad for your health - that's a lot of caffeine and a lot of sugar. Add that to a diet that includes a lot of white rice and I could see where it's a major problem. You would think the problem would be obesity and diabetes though, not suicides. But I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on TV.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373353648_New_form_...
> Nearly 77 % of participants consumed milk tea at least 6-11 cups in the last year Is that per day or the entire year?
Per year, they used the following scale in the questions: "The frequency of milk tea consumption was measured by the item, “In the past year, what was the average frequency of your milk tea consumption? (Lee et al., 2022)”. Item was rated on a 10-point Likert scale, coded as 1 = 3 cups per day, 2 = 2 cups per day, 3 = 1 cup per day, 4 = 4–6 cups per week, 5 = 2–3 cups per week, 6 = 1 cup per week, 7 = 2–3 cups per mo…
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per day, also very common in the Indian subcontinent. I sure think is addictive but symptoms attached to anxiety, suicidal etc - not so sure.
So you think tea itself is addicting? Milk tea is basically tea with some milk.
Tat's milk tea, almost 40g of sugar per bottle
Milk Tea has been consumed for a millennia in many countries with none of the harmful effects being mentioned in the study. I am not sure why this is suddenly an issue now among youngsters in China.
Coffee is mostly harmless but if you drink two large latte from starbucks per day you can be sure you'll wreck your body in no time
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So you think tea itself is addicting? Milk tea is basically tea with some milk.
https://www.animefanshop.de/de/snacks/getraenke/Afternoon-Mi... Tat's milk tea, almost 40g of sugar per bottle
This study is from China. The 'milk tea' being described here is the translated term for what we call bubble tea in the west. It's a sweet comfort drink, perhaps closer to a Starbucks order than the steeped tea which immediately comes to mind. It's not really good for you, but I'm quite sure Coke or beer are worse. I can only speak anecdotally here, but the bubble tea joints near my college were consistently packed,…
I'm not so sure about Coke or beer being worse. That sort of tea generally has just as much sugar as a can of coke (and the synthetic creamer is probably just as bad as the rest of what's in a coke). Both are quite unhealthy for you. Beer is a different beast altogether with both positive and negative properties.
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And sugar, and fat, if this is the milk tea I'm thinking of (aka bubble tea / boba tea)
lots of sugar. A typical large bubble tea contains 11 spoons of sugar. The total recommended daily sugar consumption of foods and drinks is 7 spoons. And plenty of studies have linked excess sugar with depression [1] And I'm sure many people have more than 1 cup per day of bubble tea too. [1]: https://www.webmd.com/diet/what-to-know-about-sugar-and-depr... .
This study is from China. The 'milk tea' being described here is the translated term for what we call bubble tea in the west. It's a sweet comfort drink, perhaps closer to a Starbucks order than the steeped tea which immediately comes to mind. It's not really good for you, but I'm quite sure Coke or beer are worse. I can only speak anecdotally here, but the bubble tea joints near my college were consistently packed,…
This is something I have been thinking about a lot lately. Modern society is all about speed and convenience and entertainment, so people get used to craving something and getting it more or less immediately. We know sugar is addictive, and so is nicotine -- both are easily sated addictions and bring momentary comfort. Pile addictive social media on top and you have a population that is used to finding that next spark of joy/comfort/excitement immediately.
Buddhism posits that "life is suffering" so these moments of comfort can be understood to salve the suffering a bit so we can then go out and endure more suffering for the good of each other. But when those moments of comfort become minutes or hours of comfort, we are no longer struggling against the suffering as much as we are trying to hide from it. When those moments of comfort become the most important part of the day, we are not on the right path.
I fear this means that society on a broad scale is less durable than it used to be, which is why we have seen an increase in both suicide rates and escalating attacks between "opposed" groups. Toleration of groups which don't agree with you is a kind of suffering, yet this behavior is actively avoided due to the shallowness of social media interactions being taken to mean "interacting with someone = you agreeing with them" which leads to endless purity testing and spiraling relations between groups.