Hot tea is very dangerous
March 31, 2009 – 1:00 am
If you drink very hot tea, this may increase your risk of cancer of the esophagus, Iranian scientists have found.
The study, published in a special edition of the British Medical British Medical Journal, says that consumption of black tea at a temperature not lower than 70 ° C, increases the risk of esophageal cancer, reported BBC.
At the same time adding in a tea milk, as do many people in the West, little ostuzhaet drink, respectively, thereby reducing this risk.
Experts believe that this is explained by the fact that cancer of the esophagus occurs in the West less than in other countries around the world.
Every year on this type of cancer in the world, killing over half a million people.
Eight times
Among the Europeans and Americans the main causes of esophageal cancer are smoking and alcohol consumption.
Thus, for example, in the Golestan province in northern Iran has one of the highest rates of cancer of the esophagus, while the inhabitants of this province not to smoke and drink a little alcohol, but tea is drunk in huge quantities.
Tehran University specialists studied “tea habit” of about 300 people who have been identified, one of the most common form of esophageal cancer, comparing them with the habits of 570 healthy people from the same region.
They found that compared to a warm cup of tea (up to 65 ° C), the use of hot tea (65-69 ° C) leads to a twofold increase in risk of cancer of the esophagus, while very hot tea (from 70 ° C) increases the risk eight times.
With this link between the quantity of tea used and the risk of cancer has not been established.
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