I have just posted my last article on the benefits of green tea.
Behold. There must be, in any other case of consumption of anything, some form of risk in the ingestion of external substances into our body. Many may be good, most are bad for our health but some may need some form of control its intake.
Just as in the case of tea drinking. Irrespective of the type of tea, be it green tea and other forms of teas and their benefits, researches in Iran have found that drinking hot tea beyond 70 degrees Celcius or 158 degrees Fahrenheit is detrimental to our oesophagus.
It was suggested that in the event you wish to drink it hot, let the tea cool off before drinking it. Of course, drinking cooled tea do not have the …….ummmmph. Well, do you want to risk your health. What is good for the mouth or the tongue may not be good for your body. Health shall prevail over any form of likings.
Drinking tea at 65 degrees and below can double your oesophagal cancer risk whereas drinking it at 70 degrees and above give rise to a eight fold increase of that cancer. In addition to this, avoid drinking hot tea immediately upon its making as you are risking yourself to a five fold increase to the deadly disease if you drink it within 4 minutes. These findings are consistent with thermal injury which may cause epithelial cancers although the underlying mechanism is not clear and should be studied further. You should not be alarmed over these findings and your enthusiasm for drinking tea is not curtailed or diminished. You should just let food and drinks cool from “scalding” to “tolerable” before swallowing them.
Like I believe, anything in excess, being a deviant form the normal in whatever you do or consume, shall pose great challenges to you. I had never allowed my children to consume anything that is hot from the wok or oven, apart from eating healthy foods and they are living testimonies to healthy living. None of my three kids, aged 18, 16 and 13 do maintain great health and do not seek out medical treatments for the last 10 years or so.
I had often advocated that you should eat healthy foods, drink sufficient clear water and avoid consuming in excess of anything to maintain healthy living. So, what are you waiting for? Wouldn’t you want to know more about this? Visit my other blog to know more on how you could achieve better health and live healthily
