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.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the esophagus referred to as “the food pipe” before
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
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My grandpa would say this before throating a hotdog
My grandpa still talks about him very fondly.
Generally in medicine it is (never) referred to as the Food Tube. I can’t even complete the process of considering reading this article.
That’s not how parentheses are used.
Do you (care) to elaborate? Or do you believe that a (bald) assertion is sufficient?
only on Pornhub.
The BBC is being linguistically neocolonized by Germans it seems
The evidence
“Food pipe cancer” is just a lot easier to say than “esophageal cancer”.
Yeah, in the same way “poop chute cancer” is easier to say than “colorectal cancer”.
It’s all one big cancerous pipe, really.
Pie hole