"the food pipe"
I get slightly unsettled reading this
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This isn't new information
It's sort of like pain is a warning. Weird.
Am I the only one here who grew up with the term "food pipe" in my vocabulary??
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the esophagus referred to as “the food pipe” before
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a similar things happen with uncontrolled gerd, causes barrets oesophagus, and makes that are prone to cancer, the cells in the lining goes through "changes" to resemble intestinal cells(which is a precursor). something similar happens here likely.
The work [...] defines any drink at 65 degrees Celsuis or above as "very hot" and posing a potential risk.
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Beyond normal esophagal damage or just on par with it?
I can see people assuming "I got mucosa I'm fine" but that wouldn't be giving these results if it were true
I dl'd the cited reference, and did a keyword search. There was no "food pipe" in the article.
Hot Drinks and Oesophageal Cancer: Prospective Analyses in Around 1 Million UK Adults https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.70654
Certain types of brain damage result in difficulty remembering nouns. Do you suppose the author, Michelle Roberts, is suffering from this, or is it Her editor?
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Time to read a study and see how this article quoted it wrong to bait clicks
Food pipe.
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Not that it matters but I guessed at this 15 years ago after reading about the link between acid reflux and esophageal cancer
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