Drinking scalding tea increases the risk of throat cancer
Now you better think twice when you want to gulp down that steaming hot coffee or tea.
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.
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Never heard of this one before. Have they done a study in the US too on this?
hightechnologyscrubs
July 17, 2011 at 4:51 pm
There are couple of articles surrounding this topic.
You can search and some of them appears to be US sources.
iKeL
July 17, 2011 at 9:08 pm