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...

Hi,

Mike Henley wrote:

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...

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:
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...

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Rick Chappell rolled
initiative and posted the following:

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?

It's not the tea. It's the temperature.

--
Derek

Then there was the guy who loved his wife so much, he almost told her.

Derek wrote in message ...

I
don't know how the salt interacts, but I have never seen any
studies indicate unsalted tea as a culprit. Mike, have you?

It's not the tea. It's the temperature.

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...

While intrepidly exploring rec.food.drink.tea, Mike Henley rolled
initiative and posted the following:

Derek wrote in message
...

I
don't know how the salt interacts, but I have never seen any
studies indicate unsalted tea as a culprit. Mike, have you?

It's not the tea. It's the temperature.

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...

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.


--
Derek

If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it's
because they take better care of it.