REAL LIFE NEWS: SEE, I TOLD YOU TEA WAS BAD FOR YOU!
by Hazed
Here’s a health scare that only affects men. How discriminatory! It seems drinking lots of tea can increase the risk of prostate cancer.
Bad news for English gents, since tea is our national drink.
Scientists from Glasgow University tracked over 6,000 male volunteers for a period of 37 years, monitoring their health. They found that men who drank seven or more cups of tea a day had a 50% higher risk of developing prostate cancer than moderate tea drinkers, or those who don’t touch the stuff.
The researchers do say that they don’t know if drinking tea is actually a risk factor, or if the tea drinkers just happen to live to an age where cancer becomes more likely.
Quite right. Correlation does not equal causation.
But since I am neither a man, nor a tea drinker, this is one health scare that isn’t going to bother me one bit.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18494725
