3-30-09
Tea lovers listen up.
It could cause, get this, cancer!
A new survey shows drinking hot tea increases the risk of throat cancer.
Researchers with Tehran University of Medical Sciences in Iran found those drinking tea 158 degrees or warmer increase their risk eight times.
Drinking tea less than two minutes after being poured increased the risk four times.
The solution is simple, researchers say you should wait to drink the tea four minutes after it's poured and cool the tea before swallowing.
The study appears on the British Medical Journal's website BMJ.com.
Throat cancer kills more than half a million people each year.