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Another study finds very hot drinks increases risk of cancer

Letting drinks cool down is one of the 101 tips in the Live Forever Manual

20-Mar-2019

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Drinking very hot tea could almost double the risk of oesophageal cancer.

The oesophagus (or gullet) connects the throat to the stomach.

Most people in the UK don’t drink their tea at such high temperatures.

Tea drinkers should let their beverages cool down before drinking them.

Study of 50,000 people in Iran published in the International Journal of Cancer.

Other studies have generally looked at mate drinkers, rather than tea drinkers.

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Farhad Islami

Cancer epidemiologist and Scientific Director of Surveillance Research at the American Cancer Society

International Journal of Cancer

Official journal of Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) for medical professionals

University of Cambridge

Collegiate research university in Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Another study finds very hot drinks increases risk of cancer