Hot Tea Can Cause Cancer
Tea is a favorite drink a lot of people. Its presence is often accompanied us while eating a heavy meal or snack. But, do not drink while still hot.
A study, published in the British Medical Journal and quoted in March 2009 on Health24 revealed, people who drink tea have a higher risk of throat cancer than those who chose a cold drink.
Esophagus cancer (where the distribution of food and drink from the throat to the stomach or the stomach) have been identified with smoking and drinking alcohol. In fact, hot drinks also have the same risk as a result of damage to the tissue lining the throat.
Furthermore, these findings reveal, an Iranian researcher went to Golestān Province in Iran. This province is one place where oesophageal cancer patients was highest in the world. Residents there have a habit of hot black tea consumed in large amounts, ie more than one liter per day per person.
A team led by Reza Malekzadeh Digestive Disease Research Center of Tehran University of Medical Sciences watching habits of 300 people who have been diagnosed with throat tumors and 571 match groups of healthy people who live in the same area.
Study Results
Those who drank hot tea (the temperature of 65-69 degrees Celsius) had twice the risk of emergence of throat cancer than those who drank hot tea (temperature less than 65 degrees Celsius). Meanwhile, drinking tea very hot (above 70 degrees Celsius) increase the risk of throat cancer up to eight times.
In an editorial The Lancet said that studies based on evidence that the liquid is too hot causes damage to epithelial lining of the throat and triggered the emergence of cancer, although how that could happen, not really clear. It is said, there’s nothing to worry or panic for them to invite the usual hot tea.
In a previous study in the UK is said, to eliminate the risk of throat cancer, drink tea with an average temperature of 56-60 degrees Celsius. Way, wait about four minutes you have tea pour boiling water before drinking it.
The study revealed no relationship between the amount of tea drinking and cancer risk. Scope of the study itself does not include coffee and other hot drinks.
