Hot Tea Poses Cancer Risk

If you send your tea back to the kitchen because it isn't hot enough for you, here's a reason to reform your gourmet ways. According to a study just published in the British Medical Journal, drinking hot tea increases your risk for esophageal cancer -- by a lot. Drinking very hot tea, 158 degrees Fahrenheit or above (that's finger-burning hot), raises your risk by 800 percent. Regular hot tea, 156-157 degrees, doubles the risk when compared to tea that's merely very warm. That's a huge reduction in risk for sacrificing just two degrees of scalding. And the risk disappears at 149 degrees or below. >