New Studies Show-Throat Cancer Risk Increases For Hot Tea Drinkers

British Medical Journal Show New Studies Show-Throat Cancer Risk Increases For Hot Tea Drinkers. This means that people who drink their tea piping hot run a higher risk of throat cancer than counterparts who prefer a cooler cup of tea.

Cancer of the oesophagus or esophagus is linked especially to smoking and alcohol abuse but hot beverages are now being considered as a risk factor and very possibly a cause of damage to throat tissue.

Iranian researchers went to Golestan province, which has one of the highest rates of oesophageal cancer in the world. They found out that people there, sip large quantities of hot black tea. The people from that area typically drink more than a litre (1.8 pints) per day/per person and further research found that they also have a low incidence of tobacco and alcohol use.

A team of researchers, led by Reza Malekzadeh, of the Digestive Disease Research Center at Tehran University of Medical Sciences, interviewed 300 people who had been diagnosed with a throat tumor and a matched group of 571 healthy people who lived in the same area.

Here Are Those Findings

People who drank hot tea (between 65-69 degrees Celsius, 149-156 degrees Fahrenheit) were twice as likely to develop throat cancer compared with those who drank warm or lukewarm tea, whose temperature was 65 C (149 F) or less.

Drinking very hot tea (at least 70 C, 158 F) was associated with an eightfold increased risk compared with warm or lukewarm tea.

The study backed evidence that scorching fluids may cause damage to the throat’s epithelial lining and lead to cancer, although exactly how this happens remains unclear. It further stated that there was no need to panic

But it also said that there was no cause for panic, as most people tend to drink tea at a warm temperature. Previous studies in Britain, whom we are are avid tea drinkers, have reported an average temperature preference of 56-60 C (133-140 F).

The study recommends that tea junkies wait at least four minutes before drinking from a freshly boiled cup and that there was no association between the amount of tea that was consumed and the risk of cancer. The new research did not make an assessment of risk for coffee and other hot beverages.

I would suggest that with these findings that not drinking or eating very hot food would be wise advise because “New Studies Show-Throat Cancer Risk Increases For Hot Tea Drinkers.”