Posted on 03/27/2009 7:42:13 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
Drinking steaming hot tea has been linked with an increased risk of oesophageal (food tube) cancer, Iranian scientists have found.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Everything causes cancer.
Those Iranians. I believe every word they say. Obama says that they have done wonderful things for the world. Oh, yeah.
Probably even steaming hot water.
Everything is linked to Cancer.
I think simply being human, could cause cancer.
Yes, this is true, because anyone who has ever drank it has died, or is gonna.
“Iranian scientists have found”
I will wait to hear what the 3rd grade science class in Bloomington Indiana has to say before I believe it.
Just so long as steaming coffee is still safe.
There was a study a few years ago that found a strong link between drinking black tea and esophageal cancer. It didn’t note any temperature connection, though it makes some basic chemical sense that warm or hot tea would have a greater effect than cold. That study also found that adding milk eliminated the cancer effect, but IIRC correctly did not attribute the difference to temperature. In my experience, most people who drink tea without milk just wait a little longer for it to cool down. Also, adding milk to green tea neutralizes most of the anti-cancer effect of green tea, so I tend to think the milk effect found with hot black tea is related to a chemical reaction with the cancer-causing substance, and not just a cooling down of the tea.
Maybe they've been getting their tea from China.
I read a similar British study nearly 20 years ago. There was a link made to the higher concentrations of tannins and tannic acid than in coffee. Tannins are astringent, bitter plant polyphenols that either bind and precipitate or shrink proteins.
I drink a cup of hot tea each morning, and I have been having a lot of trouble swallowing for about a year now.
I think Iranian scientists cause cancer, or maybe it was Iranians, I get these things confused...
I drink two hot cups of tea every morning,no milk and wash it down with two cigs..
Your problem not being able to swallow,will be cured by Obama’s healthcare.
Sorry we are going to have to put you down..
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The milk counters the tannins in black tea. Drinking black tea straight is were you run into the chance of cancer.
“I drink a cup of hot tea each morning, and I have been having a lot of trouble swallowing for about a year now.”
Is it black? Do you put milk in it? This Iranian study is just a reiteration of a British study.
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