Many people like to drink milk tea and fruit tea, especially when the weather is hot. However, if you have children at home, I suggest you better quit milk tea.
Some time ago, a 12-year-old girl had a cup of milk tea a day, and as a result, there was nausea and vomiting, and when she went to the hospital for a checkup, her blood sugar was 26mmol/L (this amount, more than 4 times the normal value), and she was finally diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, and she needed insulin injections to control blood sugar for life.
Milk tea is high in sugar, most people know, but what you don't know is that in addition to sugar, there is another ingredient that threatens the health of children - caffeine.
Hearing this name, many people's reaction is not that there is only caffeine in coffee? How can there be caffeine in milk tea and fruit tea?
Some institutions have done testing and found that the content of caffeine in beverages such as bubble tea, cheese fruit tea, and kumquat lemonade is very high.
In a cup of 500g of bubble tea, the average content of caffeine is 134mg.
In a cup of 500g of cheese fruit tea, the average content of caffeine is 39.3mg.
Looking at these numbers alone, you may not see anything. Let's compare Starbucks and Red Bull, which is often drunk by adults, and you will understand.
A medium cup of Starbucks in a cup has a caffeine content of about 150mg and a can of Red Bull has a caffeine content of about 50mg.
In other words, a child drinking a cup of bubble tea is equivalent to drinking nearly 3 cups of Red Bull!
And for growing and developing children, caffeine can cause certain harm to the body!
1. After ingesting caffeine, the child's central nervous system becomes excited, which will lead to insomnia.
The time spent on deep sleep is drastically reduced, disrupting the normal body clock. Over time, memory decline, attention is not easy to concentrate, can not sit still, hyperactivity these conditions, height and development will also be affected.
2. Caffeine also affects bone development.
Caffeine inhibits the body's absorption of calcium, and the degree of absorption of calcium directly affects the development of a child's bones.
In particular, the child's body is not yet fully developed, their metabolism of caffeine is relatively slow, and a large amount of coffee accumulates in the body, which may cause caffeine "poisoning".
And caffeine also disrupts the absorption of trace elements that other bodies need. Such as B vitamins, these vitamins are very important for the growth and development of children.
3. Causes high blood pressure and heart disease.
Caffeine has an analgesic effect, long-term intake, will increase blood pressure, and then increase the burden on the heart, causing heart disease. One study showed that after 12 hours of drinking caffeine-containing drinks, blood pressure rose.
Since the harm of caffeine is so great, and fruit tea, milk tea and other drinks contain a lot of caffeine, how to avoid excessive intake of children?
If your child hasn't actually drunk these milk teas and fruit teas, you can do this:
1. When eating out, ask the clerk to take a clean empty milk teacup and fill a cup of warm water for the child to drink.
In this way, the child will be attracted to the cup, forget the taste of drinking, plus he does not know the taste of real milk tea and fruit tea, he thinks that what he drinks is milk tea.
2. Buy a beautiful straw cup, before going out, prepare a special "milk tea" for your child, and beat it with milk and fruit to make a milkshake. He had it himself, and when he saw the drink again, the desire to drink was not so strong.
3. When going to the milk tea shop, let the clerk only put fruit, fresh milk or water, do not add tea and sugar, and the amount is required to be less, half a cup or half a cup is enough, so as to control the child's intake.
If your child has already drunk these drinks before, here are some things to try:
Buying a cup, the family takes another cup to drink, which not only satisfies the child's desire, but also reduces the amount of the child's drink.
Or, you have a better way to use, welcome to share.