James. Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 Great. I always drink my tea straight away. Now I'm going to die. Wait Four Minutes to Drink Tea to Avoid Cancer, Researchers Say 2009-03-27 00:01:00.2 GMT By Albertina Torsoli March 27 (Bloomberg) -- You may want to wait four minutes before sipping your next cup of tea. Drinking tea that is very hot can raise the risk of cancer of the esophagus, the muscular tube that carries food and liquids from the throat to the stomach, according to a study the British Medical Journal published today. “It’s not tea per se; it’s really the temperature at which the beverage is drunk,” Paolo Boffetta, group head and cluster coordinator at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France, said in a video released on the Web by BMJ. Scientists set out to investigate why the Golestan province in northern Iran has one of the world’s highest rates of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, the most common kind of tumors of the esophagus. Locals don’t use much tobacco or alcohol, the main cause for such cancers in Europe and the U.S. They do drink tea at temperatures that often exceed 70 degrees Celsius (158 degrees Fahrenheit), the researchers said. Compared with drinking the beverage four or more minutes after being poured, drinking tea less than two minutes after pouring was associated with a fivefold higher risk of esophageal cancer, according to the study findings. Likewise, drinking very hot tea, meaning 70 degrees or more, was associated with an eightfold increased risk, the study showed. “This has the potential to save lives,” Boffetta said. Cancers of the esophagus kill more than 500,000 people around the world every year, the researchers said, citing statistics from the IARC and the American Cancer Society. ‘Major Importance’ “Locally in Iran this is going to be of major importance because they can intervene on the spot” and “it’s not just in Iran that people drink a lot of hot tea,” Nick Day, emeritus professor of epidemiology at the University of Cambridge, said in the video. The authors of the report investigated the drinking habits of 300 people diagnosed with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and a matched group of 571 healthy people from the same area. Almost all participants drank black tea regularly, with an average volume consumed of more than 1 liter (0.3 gallon) a day. The study showed no link between the amount of tea consumed and risk of cancer. Previous studies have pointed to possible benefits deriving from sipping the beverage. Green tea was suggested as a treatment for diabetes more than 70 years ago. Other studies have shown possible benefits of green tea in cancer and heart disease prevention. Still, better to wait until it cools down a bit before taking the first sip. Previous studies from the U.K. have reported an average temperature preference of 56 to 60 degrees among healthy people, the researchers said. For Related News and Information: Top health-care stories: TOP HEA <GO> Stories on European health stocks: TNI HEA EUROPE <GO> Stories on Iranian health care: TNI IRAN HEA BN <GO> Today’s most popular health-care stories: MNI HEA <GO> --Editors: Kristen Hallam, Phil Serafino To contact the reporter on this story: Albertina Torsoli in Paris at +33-1-5530-6273 or [email protected] To contact the editors responsible for this story: Phil Serafino at +33-1-5530-6277 or [email protected]; Kenneth Wong in Berlin at +49-30-70010-6215 or [email protected]
Zingari Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 so when my mum used to say to me " drink that while it's hot " , she was trying to kill me
James. Posted 27 March 2009 Author Posted 27 March 2009 Oh dear, I drink it the moment it's poured! Same here. Shall we have a joint funeral to save costs? Credit crunch and all.
Master Fox Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 I think i'll just drink my own piss instead to be on the safe side
Finnegan Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 Atleast wanking stops prostate cancer!! But too much sexual activity causes it.
Master Fox Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 Atleast wanking stops prostate cancer!! W-R-O-N-G!!! Wanking and sex gives you cancer
Dr The Singh Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 But too much sexual activity causes it. Damned if I do, damned if I don't!!!
Benji Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 Same here. Shall we have a joint funeral to save costs? Credit crunch and all. Or we could go to Newcastle and have a joint open-air cremation.
Master Fox Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 I want to wank all day, and all-night long. I just want wank!
Libertine Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 It's too hot at first anyway. Hurts my iddy-biddy throat. [/jks] I do wait though. Don't question me either, I am the fucking tea MASTER.
Zingari Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 3rd paragraph down sipping hot tea helps prevent cancer http://www.farsinet.com/hottea/medicalbenefits.html i want another second opinion
purpleronnie Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 Havent had a cup of tea or cofee in 3 years. But this sounds all a bit silly anyway, one week I read somethings good for you to eat the next its bad.
Zingari Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 Havent had a cup of tea or cofee in 3 years.But this sounds all a bit silly anyway, one week I read somethings good for you to eat the next its bad. yes , that's because it will have gone off
Big Ol' Bob Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 I heard that breathing gives you cancer, however top scien'TIT's have also came to the conclusion that 'not breathing' may also have a detrimental affect on a human being.
Lillehamring Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 W-R-O-N-G!!! Wanking and sex gives you cancer but only if you do it at the same time
Shram Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 Shouldn’t Iranian Scientist be spending there time more productively creating nuclear missiles and fulfilling there axis of evil requirements?
Trav Le Bleu Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 Of course you're going to get cancer. Anyone who can drink tea straight from the pot/kettle obviously has an asbestos lining to their throat!
Libertine Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 Of course you're going to get cancer. Anyone who can drink tea straight from the pot/kettle obviously has an asbestos lining to their throat!
Alexikokopops Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 I fucking HATE these studies. Half the time people are studied, they notice something different between the two groups and then they publish some scaremongering story about how it causes cancer before they've even studied if further. As someone involved in analysis this annoys me. This isn't aimed at this study in particular, but you just need to look at the fact that a study saying that wanking reduces the risk cancer was followed by one saying that it actually increases it. I also hate the way it says things like "it increases the risk five fold" when you don't know what the chances of getting it in the first place are. It really annoys me when people manipulate stats to prove something to this extent, especially when it's just scaremongering. This link explains it better than I could
Munzie Posted 27 March 2009 Posted 27 March 2009 Shouldn’t Iranian Scientist be spending there time more productively creating nuclear missiles and fulfilling there axis of evil requirements? Good point. Otherwise they'll get a reputation.
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