tea drinkers, let your tea cool down before you drink it, as ingesting drinks hot, and food too, is associated with an increased risk of oesophageal cancer...
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beware of oesophageal cancer...
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20 years ago
Since I have to die eventually, dying from drinking tea seems a good way to go ;-)
Laurent
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The studies I know of which showed tea to cause esophageal cancer (they were observational, but the correlations were striking and specific enough for causality to be fairly clear) applied to the drinking of "scalding hot salted tea" in a Chinese community. I don't know how the salt interacts, but I have never seen any studies indicate unsalted tea as a culprit. Mike, have you?
You definitely do not want esophageal cancer.
Rick.
Mike Henley wrote:
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While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Rick Chappell rolled initiative and posted the following:
It's not the tea. It's the temperature.
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yeah it's the temperature, not the tea... any hot liquids or meals ingested will have the same effect... we all know the common phrase "eat your food before it gets cold" or "drink you tea before it gets cold"... personally i now wait for the food or tea to get cold enough and never ingest it hot...
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While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Mike Henley rolled initiative and posted the following:
If it's too hot to savor, it's too hot to swallow.
Both with food and tea, if it's too hot for me to keep it in my mouth and enjoy the flavor, it ain't goin' down the hatch.