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Warm Is Hot Enough
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The headline is "Drinking 2 Cups of Hot Tea A Day Nearly Doubles Chances Of Cancer, Study Finds." But that's misleading. The "Hot" part is key: Drinking 2 cups of tea at 140 degrees can increase your risk of esophageal cancer, but nobody, or few people, in Western countries drink tea even close to that hot. In Russia and the Middle East, and South America, on the other hand, they do drink tea at insanely hot temperatures. ANY substance that hot will irritate your esophagus, and doing it repeatedly will surely increase your cancer risk. The tea part is less relevant than DON'T DRINK ANYTHING THAT HOT. (KYW-TV/Philadelphia)
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