Many health-minded individuals drink tea for its numerous proven benefits. A good tea promises to reduce your stress, purge toxins from your body, and decrease your risk of various diseases. Knowing this, it can come as a surprise that this same tea may also be inviting esophageal cancer upon you.
Researchers took a look at a number of patients being treated for esophageal cancer, finding that many of them reported regularly drinking more than a litre of hot black tea. Apparently, the high temperature of the beverage can do unfortunate damage to your delicate throat tissues, increasing your risk of developing malignant growths. Drinking your tea at above sixty five degrees puts you at a significantly greater risk, while teas heated up above seventy degrees are even worse.
Knowing this, it is a simple matter to avoid the increased risk brought on by your tea-drinking habit. Simply allow your tea to sit for at least four minutes after you’ve finished boiling the water, after which it should fall safely below the sixty degree level. This, coupled with regular check-ups with our Issaquah dentist, will do wonders to help prevent cancer in your mouth or throat.
