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Would that not apply to all hot beverages drank above 70c, or is there something in tea that carries a specific risk?
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This has been studied previously. I remember reading an article perhaps 5 years ago or more.
Very hot beverages of any kind can cause an inflammatory response. Inflammatory agents are linked to cellular damage and possible neoplasms.
This is not scare mongering. If you burn your arm with a match each day in the same place, one day something bad is going to happen to that skin. Burning skin frequently with sun exposure is linked to skin cancer. It is no great stretch that burning the esophagus with very hot beverages is going to be linked to an increase in esophageal cancer.
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It's the usual story of our sensationalist media quoting scientific research out of context. In Northern Iran they make tea by boiling the leaves (rather than steeping them as we do) and drink it without milk so it's extremely hot. They’ve a high incidence of oesophageal cancer - but I don't know if the study has excluded all other possible causes. I also don't know where the 70°C figure has come from. Do you envision that they’ve divided up the population into groups who drink their tea at different temperatures? If temperature is the problem then it would apply to all drinks, but the research is inconclusive. In the UK we let our tea brew and we drink it with hot milk so it's unlikely to be hotter than 70°C.
Last week it was red meat, this week it's tea. Watch this space, next week there'll be a story that breathing causes AIDS.
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Most esophageal cancer is caused by years of acid reflux burning the lining of the oesophagus bringing about Barrett,s oesophagus whereby the lining of the oesophagus changes over time to cancer .Tea is high in tanic acid and no doubt is not good for the oesophagus.However if the reflux wasn’t present then no doubt it would not be such a problem.Doctors need to find out the reasons for peoples reflux and fix faulty esophageal valves–hiatus hernia,s
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Yet another scare story. Have these scientists nothing superior to do, or do they think there’s not yet enough woe and misery in the world?
We British have been drinking tea for centuries- I wonder how many of our ancestors succumbed to cancer induced by drinking tea?
Besides which, who is going to drink tea that hot? You sip it, find it's uncomfortably warm, you let it cool a while, not gulp it down anyway.
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O personally think it's all a load if baloney…
We can't drink anything, we can't eiat anything or we might get cancer….. We would all be dying through starvation if we listened to these idiots.
My Grandad would only drink his tea piping hot and he drank cup after cup……..he died of Parkinsons disease not cancer……
I'm sick off all these idiots that keep saying we can't have this/that and the other.
I have the ability to envision that it would burn your insides if you kept drinking it piping hot but not cause cancer!!!
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That is exactly what i wondered when i read it. Ive looked about the net and cant find anything that helps to answer it though. Maybe they just mention tea because its Britains most popular hot beverage, and the thing we’re most apt to drink lots of
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Old Know All: They smoke the hookah pipe in Northern Iran. I wonder if there is more of a connection with that and oesophageal cancer than tea?
And yes, breathing does cause AIDS. Did you know that 100% of HIV positive people has breathed in the past?
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Where was the article?
If that was true, everybody in England, where we drink ALOT of tea during the day, would be riddled with oesphageal cancer.
And were not.
Good God! There mustn’t be a healthy person in China.
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These researchers are products of universities that issue Mickey Mouse degrees & can’t get proper jobs