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Milk Tea Addiction
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Re: Milk Tea Addiction
#22Isn’t that just the caffeine in the milk tea?
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....
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#23What's their angle? They seem to heavily imply that milk tea causes those mental health issues rather than those mental health issues potentially encouraging sufferers to have at least something to enjoy in their day. The wording does not seem to acknowledge merely the correlation but implies causation. Food therapy, caffeine addiction, etc. is a well-known phenomenon, how is this any different?
sugar
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#24This 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, though mostly with solo customers. Lots of heads in phones. If there's anything to be gleaned from this study, my personal take is that pleasure seeking but spiritually lacking behavior (in this case, buying expensive sugary drinks very frequently) can correlate with depressive symptoms at a population level. I have no doubt one could draw similar conclusions from the many habits I've kept over the years.
From Wikipedia -
"In China, young people's growing obsession with bubble tea shaped their way of social interaction. Buying someone a cup of bubble tea has become a new way of informally thanking someone. It is also a favored topic among friends and on social media.[42]"
Re: Milk Tea Addiction
#25Isn’t that just the caffeine in the milk tea?
casomorphins
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#26In the last year?! In England its not unusual to drink 6-11 cups in a day lol
Tea is addictive though in a weird kind of way and it does make you feel a bit crap if you drink to much of it, but then so does coffee even more so.
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#27What's their angle? They seem to heavily imply that milk tea causes those mental health issues rather than those mental health issues potentially encouraging sufferers to have at least something to enjoy in their day. The wording does not seem to acknowledge merely the correlation but implies causation. Food therapy, caffeine addiction, etc. is a well-known phenomenon, how is this any different?
milk has casomorphins which are opioids so I dunno not a stretch
Time to crack down on those poppyseed bagels.
... it's the sugar. It's always the sugar.
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#28This has to be a parody.
I get that you can try to calculate some level of correlation, sure. But to jump straight to "aiding policy makers to restrict advertisement and access to" is making some insanely huge implications that haven't been covered at all in the study. Like the fact that milk tea (bubble tea) consumption might cause some of these symptoms. Let's not confuse causality with correlation here.
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#29Is this the same as Bubble Tea? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea
Bubble tea, in the normal sense, is milk tea with tapioca bubbles. Generally, if you go to a Boba cafe that is more...authentic...you will see them list Boba and Milk Tea separately and they will ask for sugar levels at order time. This article is focused around China, though I would note that in the US, many Bubble Tea chains have taken to aggressively increasing sugar, some sizes and flavors top 100g of sugar.