Drink hot tea during the day? You may want to give it time to cool down if you’re concerned about the health of your esophagus. According to a new study, drinking hot tea may increase the risk of esophageal cancer, a serious form of cancer with a very dismal prognosis. This study was recently published in the British Medical Journal and the results will hopefully spark further research into what causes this devastating form of cancer. This particular study was conducted on people in the Golestan province in Iran, an area where drinking hot tea is a common practice and the incidence of cancer of the esophagus is high. When tea drinkers with esophageal cancer were compared with controls who were healthy, it was shown that those who drank hot tea or very hot tea had a significantly higher risk of developing esophageal cancer compared to those who drank their tea at a lukewarm temperature. It was also shown that drinking tea within two minutes of pouring it increased the risk of … [Read more...]
