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Very hot drinks may damage the food pipe and increase cancer risk (www.bbc.com)
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Regularly drinking beverages like tea and coffee at very hot temperatures increases the risk of cancer of the food pipe or gullet, known as oesophageal cancer, UK research suggests.

Researchers say the findings, from a study of nearly a million people, make this the largest to date to establish the link.

In the study, people who had their drinks "very hot" had around a three times higher risk of the cancer than "warm" tea or coffee drinkers - although experts stress the overall chances of developing this cancer are low.

Steaming hot liquid can damage the cell lining of the food pipe on the way down to the stomach.

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[–] Number_103@lemmy.world 75 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

I don’t think I’ve ever heard the esophagus referred to as “the food pipe” before

[–] GingerGoodness@lemmy.world 19 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The BBC tends to emulate NHS writing guidelines for patient education materials when they're covering health topics. The standard is to use very plain language with a reading level of a 10 year old to make the information accessible.

https://service-manual.nhs.uk/content/how-we-write

https://service-manual.nhs.uk/content/health-literacy

[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 13 points 19 hours ago

My grandpa would say this before throating a hotdog

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 9 points 18 hours ago

Generally in medicine it is (never) referred to as the Food Tube. I can't even complete the process of considering reading this article.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 18 hours ago

only on Pornhub.

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

“Food pipe cancer” is just a lot easier to say than “esophageal cancer”.

[–] L7HM77@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, in the same way "poop chute cancer" is easier to say than "colorectal cancer".

[–] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

It’s all one big cancerous pipe, really.