Thursday, April 9, 2009

Steaming hot tea leads to cancer


Iranian scientists have found that drinking hot tea leads to increased risk of food tube (esophageal) cancer. Also consuming black tea at temperatures of 70c or more increases the risk of the same cancer, the British Medical Journal study found.

As the western people does, adding milk cools the drink enough to eliminate the risk. Every year more than 500,000 people dies worldwide because of the esophageal cancer. Tobacco and alcohol are the main factors linked to the development of esophageal cancers in Europe and American nations.

But it is clear that why people around the rest of the world, who are lessly used to tobacco and alcohol, have high rates of the disease although there has been a theory that regularly drinking very hot drinks damage the lining of the gullet.

One of the highest rates of OSCC was found at Golestan Province in northern Iran. but rates of alcohol consumption and smoking are very low and women are as likely to have a diagnosis. however, Tea drinking is widespread

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