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This seems quite plausible to me. My teen aged diet consisted of about that much black tea (English Breakfast, mainly) and buttered toast with Vegemite. I sto
by gumby 3y ago
This seems quite plausible to me. My teen aged diet consisted of about that much black tea (English Breakfast, mainly) and buttered toast with Vegemite.
I stopped when my mum (a physician) pointed out that the number of tea leaves I was consuming (not deliberately, but casually) would probably cause oesophageal cancer. Perhaps she merely wanted me to vary my diet.
- thfuran 3y agoThere is not, as far as I know, any link to esophageal cancer particular to tea, but regularly consuming hot beverages is associated with higher rates of esophageal cancer.
- reducesuffering 3y agoIsn't that only very hot (scalding) beverages like Argentinian smoked mate though? And there's evidence that smoked mate causes esophageal cancer, so have we even isolated that it's just the very hot part of mate? I haven't seen evidence of typical tea/coffee temperature beverages causing esophageal cancer.
- thfuran 3y agoThere are studies from multiple countries around the world linking locally consumed hot beverages to higher rates of esophageal cancer. Certainly it's nothing like smoking in terms of risk or it would be much more obvious. But maybe there's something to it. Or maybe there are too many studies looking at every possible thing related to cancer and science is p hacking itself and these sorts of results tend to get widely publicized.
- BadHumans 3y agoI don't remember how strong it is but there is evidence that consuming hot liquid, in the range of the temp to steep black tea, can contribute to esophageal cancer, So if you're pounding hot tea all day, it may be a concern.