Drinking hot tea can lead to cancer

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By nicaq25

London: It is advisable to wait a few minutes for the drink to cool a little before drinking tea, doctors said, after a study found very hot tea was linked with an eightfold increased risk of cancer of the oesophagus.

Research carried out on the tea drinking habits of 300 people with throat cancer and 571 people without cancer, found compared with drinking tea at 65 degrees or less, drinking tea between 65 degrees and 69 degrees was associated with a doubling in the risk of cancer and drinking even hotter tea was linked to an eight fold risk. David Whiteman, principal research fellow at Queensland Institute of Medical Research said in accompanying editorial in the British Medical Journal online: "These findings are not cause for alarm, however, and they should not reduce public enthusiasm for the time honoured ritual of drinking tea.
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Other_World_Stories/10299124.html

By anonymous• 28 Mar 2009 20:08
anonymous

lol, it is going to be soon, we can't get out of bed as that will give us cancer.

My thoughts are my own, but I doubt my Mum would agree with some of them.

By snowyowl• 28 Mar 2009 17:50
snowyowl

I've decided reading gives me cancer so I'm giving that up and off to enjoy all the things reported to give me cancer

:)

smile lots laugh more

By stealth• 28 Mar 2009 17:48
stealth

was the tea drunk using a plastic cup?

By nicaq25• 28 Mar 2009 17:41
nicaq25

because, the chinese and japanese people usually drinks their tea hot. But also study said that most of them live a bit longer than other races. How's is that?

By every_mothers_nightmare• 28 Mar 2009 17:39
every_mothers_nightmare

i would have been dead by now.

Aana free, jaana free,

Pakde gaye tho khana free.

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