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The boba tea result alone makes me want to never drink that again. Was a fun little treat while it lasted…
by rtpg 2y ago
The boba tea result alone makes me want to never drink that again. Was a fun little treat while it lasted…
- jeffbee 2y agoWhy did you ever drink it in the first place? A boba is 500g of diabetes packaged in 100g of trash. It's the worst idea ever.
- cactusplant7374 2y agoBoba can be part of a healthy diet and lifestyle.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 2y agoSo can smoking
- cactusplant7374 2y agoNo it can't. Type 2 diabetes is mostly genetic. I can eat as much Boba as I want and not get diabetes.
- paulryanrogers 2y agoSource on type 2 being mostly genetic? All I've found is there is some link but not conclusive. Also T2 is on the rise in young people. Have their genetics changed dramatically in the past few decades? Or has food? https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data-research/research/young-people-diabetes-on-rise.html https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data-research/research/young-pe...
- cogman10 2y agoSo interestingly it could be the two working together [1] [2]. T2 may be on the rise partially to epigenetic changes. [1] https://www.thediabetescouncil.com/link-epigenetics-type-2-diabetes/ https://www.thediabetescouncil.com/link-epigenetics-type-2-d... [2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10258626/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10258626/
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- jahewson 2y agolol no
- cactusplant7374 2y agoIt's true. My mother has been obese for most of her life but isn't even pre-diabetic. Her diet would scare people on HN.
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- hombre_fatal 2y agoYeah, your proclivity to overeat is highly genetic, and your predisposition to get T2 diabetes in an energy surplus is highly genetic. We like to think that our (positive) behavior comes from our own self-made character traits rather behavior that is genetically determined.
- bpodgursky 2y agoThis is a simplification. Type 2 diabetes is heavily polygenic, but the genetic connection could be... you are genetically predisposed to like sweet food! In which case, the diet intervention would work, most people just aren't willing to do it. Many genetic predispositions are behavioral, it's not all pure metabolic effects.
- Spivak 2y agoJesus HN, it's a sweet drink. Y'all act like nobody eats cookies, candy, ice cream. Happy Birthday here's your kale salad. The "ate like shit your whole life and are now overcorrecting in your 40s because you got consequences for the first time" energy is big in this thread.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoSome people are capable of consuming nutrition in moderation.
- rgbrgb 2y agomy fam loves boba w zero sugar added... all the places we go to here in san diego let you adjust (e.g. omomo [0]). basically a fresh milky fruit or avocado smoothie with chewy tapioca pearls. it's a fun treat that seemed a lot healthier than an ice cream or something. these findings make me sad :-| [0]: https://www.omomoteashoppe.com https://www.omomoteashoppe.com
- jeffbee 2y agoIce cream strikes me as a lot healthier than boiled play-doh.
- tyre 2y agoYou seem to have a weirdly strong hatred for boba. It’s okay if something isn’t for you!
- rtpg 2y agoIs this based off the tapioca balls? I haven’t considered the health of the balls, but I could see it as being the same as swallowing a bunch of gum.
- Tagbert 2y agoThey are not “gum”. They are mainly starch. They have no nutritional benefit but a do convert a big load of sugars in your blood.
- PittleyDunkin 2y ago> They have no nutritional benefit but a do convert a big load of sugars in your blood. That is, like, the definition of nutritional benefit.
- Tagbert 2y agoIt is a very low grade nutrition that produces a lot of unhealthy results. Not really a benefit.
- rtpg 2y agoI like the texture of the tapioca balls and like milk tea. I’d only get the milk tea plus tapioca (and choose the lowest sweetness possible, “no sugar” if offered) I mean I get not liking it. I like it. I’d have it maybe once every three months as a little treat
- gertlex 2y agoIt seems noteworthy, but not commented that I can see (in the article), that the different samples of "Boba Guys Black Tea Pearls" have 20x variation in measured amount. So what's up with that? (I have uninformed ideas...)
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- wumeow 2y agoThis seems to be the happening with other items and chemicals tested as well. Look at the results for DNP in Clover organic milk for example.
- iAmAPencilYo 2y agoFurther down, they explain the measurement errors involved: " If you buy the same product twice, how much will chemical levels vary? When we bought two samples of the same product, plastic chemical levels differed on average by 59%, calculated as Relative Percent Difference (RPD). To test whether completely identical samples would show different levels of chemicals, we sent about 10% of our products in triplicate. This means we sent three copies of the product from the same batch – with matching lot number and expiration date – bought at the same store on the same day. We found that the triplicate samples differed less – on average by 33%. Our lab’s quality control methodology lists 20% RPD as an acceptable margin of measurement error for duplicate samples, meaning if you tested the exact same sample twice, you could see up to a 20% difference purely due to measurement noise. Taking that into account, the RPD for two samples of the same product (not necessarily from the same lot) ranges from 39-59%. For samples with the same lot number and expiration date, the RPD narrows to 13-33%. Within-product variability appears high, possibly because we are dealing with very small chemical concentrations measured in nanograms."
- gertlex 2y agoYep, I saw that section. To my interpretation, these average percents are so much smaller than the variation seen, that it's basically /not/ addressing the outlier variations. Perhaps plots would be better/less alarming than easy-to-cherry-pick tables, but I'm not expert on conveying this sort of data either...
- kristofferR 2y agoIt's really annoying that they only test one brand (Boba Guys), it's unclear wether other producers have better quality products.
- diamondfist25 2y agoIn Taiwan, there was a huge scandal decade ago about this exact same issue — people discovered vendors were using plasticiser to make the boba jelly like. Im sure most of the boba shops in the US import ingredients from Taiwan, so its not surprising here