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Drinking a cup of hot tea at least once a day may be linked to a significantly lower risk of developing the serious eye condition, glaucoma, finds a small study published online in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
But drinking decaffeinated and caffeinated coffee, decaffeinated tea, iced tea and soft drinks doesn't seem to make any difference to glaucoma risk, the findings show.
[...] After taking account of potentially influential factors, such as diabetes and smoking, hot tea-drinkers were 74 per cent less likely to have glaucoma.
But no such associations were found for coffee -- caffeinated or decaffeinated -- decaffeinated tea, iced tea or soft drinks.
This is an observational study so no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect, and the absolute numbers of those with glaucoma were small. Information on when glaucoma had been diagnosed was also unavailable.
Connie M Wu, Annie M Wu, Victoria L Tseng, Fei Yu, Anne L Coleman. Frequency of a diagnosis of glaucoma in individuals who consume coffee, tea and/or soft drinks. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2017; DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2017-310924
Source: http://www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/drinking-hot-tea-every-day-linked-to-lower-glaucoma-risk/
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday December 18 2017, @06:37AM
What kind of British guy drinks Diet Coke, or iced tea, or coffee? A wacky one. A nut job. The normal ones, as you know, they have their hot tea. Glaucoma is a HORRIFIC thing, it's like somebody grabbed your eyeballs and squeezed. Pure torture! Maybe, probably, it can make anybody LOSE HIS MIND. How can anyone go through that without going a little screwy? And it makes a guy go blind. And this blind, crazy guy is going to do the tea ceremony every morning & afternoon? I don't think so, folks.
You do this science in America, I'll tell you what you'll find. The guys who don't drink coffee are sick, or bad guys. And a lot are unemployed LOSERS. They're not sick losers because they don't drink coffee. They don't drink coffee because they're sick losers. While I became very successful in business and in politics, and enjoy MAGNIFICENT health, without ever touching coffee.
This is easy stuff, folks. Sometimes I wonder about the science people. Maybe, probably, you people don't want to hear this, but it's overrated. I think a lot of science is very overrated.