Recently, the incident of a 24-year-old Guangxi guy who was admitted to the ICU because he was accustomed to drinking at least 4 cups of milk tea a day aroused the attention of netizens. The reporter learned that the young man almost drank milk tea instead of water, and recently began to experience unexplained abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms. At the beginning of May, when he was in unbearable pain, he was accompanied by his family and found that he had diabetes, diabetic ketoacidosis, acute kidney injury, hyperkalemia, hypertension, hyperuric acid, fatty liver, arrhythmia, acute Pancreatitis and other diseases, because of critical condition, was directly admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).
“The sugar and fat in milk tea are most likely to cause harm to the human body.” Jin Hui, chief physician of the Clinical Nutrition Department of Zhongda Hospital Affiliated to Southeast University, told reporters that a high-fat diet may have induced the young man’s ketoacidosis As an acute complication of diabetes, it often leads to a series of problems such as kidney damage and pancreatitis. “Lack of exercise, high-fat, high-sugar diet, obesity, etc. can lead to metabolic syndrome in the human body. How to encounter an acute state such as a cold can easily induce acute complications of diabetes. After the condition is improved through treatment, the patient should start from the source. To control problems, such as weight loss, reasonable diet, and strengthening exercise, so as to improve metabolic function.”
Nowadays, many young people want to have the happiness brought by drinking milk tea, but also want to reduce the Sugar intake, so when they order milk tea, they will silently tick “sugar-free” in the column of sugar selection. However, the mouth can’t deceive you, even unsweetened milk tea still has obvious sweetness. “The milk in milk tea may come from milk, milk powder or creamer, all of which contain lactose or high fructose syrup. Therefore, milk tea itself has its own sugar.” Jin Hui explained that sugar-free food is divided into two categories, one is 100 ml The sugar content of the product is not higher than 0.5% (ie 0.5g); there is also the concept of stealing, and merchants will use “sucrose-free” to promote, but sugar substitutes still exist. There is a “cruel” truth that I have to say: someone has done a sampling test on the sugar-free milk tea available on the market. From the test results, there is no “sugar-free” milk tea that meets the standard.
In addition, in addition to sugar, the caffeine in milk tea will also have an impact on the human body. If you drink a lot, people will often be in a state of excitement, and the balance of human hormone secretion will be disturbed, which will also lead to obesity. the possibility of various diseases. “Some businesses will add an additive called non-dairy creamer, which contains trans fatty acids that are not friendly to patients with cardiovascular disease, and are likely to cause coronary heart disease,” Jin Hui added.
Milk tea is not a healthy drink. If you really habitually use it as a “life-sustaining artifact” and drink it for a long time, it will inevitably destroy the body’s metabolism and immune system, and cause various diseases. Do not drink or reduce the frequency of drinking milk tea, insist on exercising, is a healthy lifestyle.
Yangtze Evening News/Ziniu News reporter Xu Qianqian