Drinking Hot tea results Throat Cancer


Consumption hot tea may reasons throat cancer, say Iranian researchers, suggesting people let their steaming drink cool before consuming them.
Previous studies have linked tobacco and alcohol with cancer of the oesophagus, and the research published in the British Medical Journal suggests that scalding beverages may also pave the way for such tumours.

Drinking very hot tea at a temperature of greater than 70 degrees Celsius was related with an eight-fold increased risk of throat cancer balanced to nipping warm or lukewarm tea at less than 65 degrees, the researchers carve.Northern Iran Region has one of the highest rates of throat cancer in the world, but smoking rates and alcohol using up are low, say the researchers. Nearly all the volunteers drank black tea regularly, consuming on average more than a litre each day.

People who frequently drank tea less than two minutes after pouring were five times more likely to expand the cancer evaluate to those who waited four or more minutes, the researchers say.British studies have reported people prefer their tea at an average temperature of 56 degrees to 60 degrees, they reminder.

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Different ways to reduce mental tension:

What strategies do you use to make yourself feel better, increase your energy levels and reduce your tension? That’s the question Robert Thayer and colleagues at California State University were motivated by in looking for the strategies people use and find effective. There are no revelations in the results but the fact that the same three main strategies were useful in changing mood and reducing tension and raising energy speaks volumes:

• Exercise: rated as the most effective for changing a bad mood, also good for raising energy and reducing tension.
• Music: rated the second most successful way to change a bad mood, and raising energy and reducing tension. This may be a surprising finding for some people.
• Social interaction: good for changing a bad mood and reducing tension although not necessarily so good for raising energy.
Apart from these main categories that were good across the board, there were other strategies that worked in a more selective fashion:
• Pep talk: this was rated as most successful for energy enhancement - above both exercise and music.
• Distractions (like shopping, reading, chores and hobbies): seen as useful for changing a bad mood.
At the other end of the scale, the things people rated as relatively less successful were:

• TV: less effective for reducing tension
• Eating: also less effective for reducing tension.
• Coffee: not that good for raising energy, relative to the other categories.
Gender differences were also seen. Men are more likely to try and distract themselves or seek pleasure, while women are more likely to seek social support.
One surprising finding from this study is how successful music is in all three categories of mood regulation, energy raising and tension reduction. In fact I’ve written before about the seven ways music influences mood.

I know the findings from this study are mostly pretty obvious but intellectually knowing what is good for us can be a world away from actually doing it.

For More information : How to reduce Tension

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Pursuing the invaders

Joshua Tree staff and community volunteers actively pursue invasive exotic plants. Since the 1970s, we’ve removed over 6,700 tamarisk plants, 15,000 Asian mustard plants, 1,000 tumbleweeds, and 1,200 bunches of fountaingrass. That’s a lot of sweat! As a result, our springs are clean of tamarisk and fountaingrass and water is available for animals. We continue efforts with mustard and fountaingrass, and remain vigilant in monitoring all of our weed sites.

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OSI models ---Network Layer

The network layer is responsible for end to end delivery or Source to destination delivery. The Network Layer provides the functional and procedural means of transferring variable length data sequences from a source to a destination host via one or more networks while maintaining the quality of service and error control functions.Network layer consists of seven different types of layers, these are having different type of properties and functionalities. Layers are
Physical Layer
Data Link Layer
Network Layer
Transport Layer
Session Layer
Presentation Layer
Application Layer Its offered to OSI reference model
(Open System Interconnection model).

The common functions of the network layers are
Connection oriented and connectionless communications,
Host addressing,
Message forwarding.

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Making sure food is hot enough

To test if food has been properly cooked, check that it is steaming hot all the way through. This means that it is hot enough for steam to come out.

Cut open the food with a small knife so that you can check that it is steaming hot in the middle. Generally, if food is steaming hot in the middle, then it will be steaming hot all the way through. But if you're cooking a very large dish, you might need to check it in more than one place, because some parts of the dish may be less hot than others.

Some foods change colour when they are cooked. Looking at colour is especially useful for checking meat.

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