¤ Drinking tea can reduce risk of skin cancer ¤

Lena · Active Poster Joined: 21 Apr 2007 Posts: 100

Drinking just two cups of tea per day could cut the risk of developing skin cancer, a study suggests.
The US research compared the tea-drinking habits of 1,400 people with skin cancer and 700 who had not developed the disease.

The study asked the people with cancer, plus the healthy group - all aged between 25 and 74 - about diet, lifestyle and their consumption of both green and black teas.

Both kinds of tea are rich in antioxidants which animal studies have been shown prevent the development of cancer cells.

This research found that people who drank tea regularly had a lower risk of either cancer.

Adding lemon peel to the tea,  seemed to increase the benefits of the drink, the researchers said.

teammate · Active Poster Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 128

Tea contains many mainerals and antioxidants as well as caffeine and therefore a controlled habits of tea intake is beneficial for many diseases.

suze · Active Poster Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 100

I'v read a lot about green tea but the critics said you would have too drink so much tea to see the benefit its just not worth it.

teammate · Active Poster Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 128

It is not necessary to drink so many cups of tea and at most four cup should be consumed per day.

peanutbutter215121 · The Quiet Type Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 3

Wow, thats amazing...
Tea has alot of anti-oxidants....
But you know, I have this kind of Japanese tea which contains brown rice (smells really good!) ... What does brown rice do that helps your body? Is brown rice and green tea a good fusion?