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There 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 esopha
by thfuran 3y ago
There 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.