Is iced milky bubble tea healthy?

A news from Taiwan today caught my attention. One high school girl often felt dizzy and tire that affected her study greatly lately.  After examination, the doctor found out she suffered from serious iron deficiency, the cause was because she drank one big glass of iced milky bubble tea after each meal.

The general misunderstanding is that milk can supply calcium, but in fact the women, especially young women during the menstrual period can easily lose iron.

Iron is mainly present in red cells that carries oxygen to  various organs, also involved in the body’s metabolism.  According to the doctor, the iron deficiency will appear tired, dizziness, asthma, decreased athletic ability, heart rate, pale and other symptoms.

Image result for 珍珠奶茶Drinking beverage that contains milk & sugar, strong coffee or strong tea within 1 hour before and after meals can potentially cause health problem.

Indeed the taste of iced bubble tea is very delightful especially for young people who fun with fancy, sweet and icy drink.  There are many different ice tea recipes without milk and less sugar, but still the question is

Do you know what and how to take care of your own health?

Like many young people today, we never thought about getting age, and we thought we have plenty of time to achieve our dreams and we thought it’s enough if we could having good fun without knowing the clock is clicking without stopping.  We can’t stop the time, but we do can try to prolong the ageing process if we relised what and how to take care ourselves from food and drink everyday.

 

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By Mei Lan Hsiao

Even though her family has nothing to do with tea, but she learnt the importance of consuming tea correctly in daily healthy diet based on the Chinese traditional medicine principles in Yin-Yang and 5 elements from her family when she was very young. She entered the tea learning in Taiwan since 1985, left her root because of marriage in 1991 helped her to expand her learning from original inward-out views to 360 degree. She started to promote the authentic knowledge about tea and wisdom in Chinese tea culture in Belgium since 1995. Tea has always been and will continue be her best teacher. In front of Nature and Tea, she remains as an innocent child, a life-time learning student.

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