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steven johnson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 08:52 PM Original message |
Steaming hot tea linked to cancer |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
1. Shit, what doesn't give you cancer? |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
2. God told Mormons to avoid hot drinks over 175 years ago |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 08:56 PM Response to Original message |
3. Then drinking steaming hot coffee must also cause esophageal cancer. |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:01 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. If the study were done properly, they'd have a control for that |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Well, apparently adding milk cools the tea, which is beneficial, so |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Not in this case, since tea was the control, and temperature the variable. |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I suppose in studies like these, it's hard to get correct controls |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:45 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Yeah, there might be some ethics involved in that, too. |
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Sanity Claws (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. Sounds like the problem is the heat |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:01 PM Response to Original message |
5. Oh thank God, I use milk I just had a spot. |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-27-09 08:10 AM Response to Reply #5 |
23. Will Dunkin Donuts & McDonald's lower their coffee temp? |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
7. What if it's steaming hot green tea? |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
8. Latest report on causes of cancer: |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:47 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Maybe, but if the odds go up eightfold by drinking steaming tea, I'm letting it cool. |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 10:22 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. What's entirely possible, |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-27-09 02:48 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Warren Zevon |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-27-09 08:33 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. That's right ........ |
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mucifer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:07 PM Response to Original message |
10. wait 6 months another study will say steaming hot tea cures esophageal tea |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:09 PM Response to Original message |
11. anytime you do anything that runs down cells that kills them you increase the risk |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
12. wasn't there some reason recently you're not supposed to put milk in your tea? |
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grillo7 (243 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-29-09 11:41 AM Response to Reply #12 |
26. Proteins in the milk bind to and in-activate the anti-oxidants... |
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ginnyinWI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
15. what is 70C in Farenheit? |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 09:49 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Um, no. 37 degrees C is body temp, about 98 degrees F n/t |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-26-09 10:12 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Its 158 F, which is pretty lukewarm |
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trotsky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-27-09 06:54 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. 158F = lukewarm?!?!? |
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Historic NY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-27-09 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
25. I don't know but the hot crap the Repukes are passing out probably is. |
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