(The Nation) Green tea cuts cancer by 80%! (not bloody likely)
- From: "Vagabond" <retoricus2@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 23 Aug 2005 17:23:05 -0700
Green tea 'lowers risk for cancers'
Published on Aug 23 , 2005
Arthit Khwankhom
The Nation
Drinking green tea vastly reduces the risk of developing stomach cancer
and significantly diminishes the risk of liver cancer, a recent Chinese
study found.
Associate Professor Dr Lina Mu of the School of Public Health at
China's Fudan University, told the World Congress of Epidemiology in
Bangkok yesterday that the study prompted a recommendation that
high-risk populations be advised to drink green tea as a preventive
intervention.
She said she had studied the protective effects of green tea against
stomach, liver and oesophageal cancers in a total of about 1,000 cases
of the cancers in Taixing City, in China's Jiangsu Province.
The study compared the prevalence of the three cancers among green tea
drinkers and non-green tea drinkers, using epidemiological information
and blood sample testing.
"We confirmed that green tea drinking is strongly associated with a
decreased risk of stomach cancer and moderately associated with a
decreased risk of liver cancer," she said.
The study found that the risk of developing stomach and liver cancers
in people who drank green tea decreased by as much as 81 per cent and
78.4 per cent respectively, whereas the risk of oesophageal cancer
decreased 38.9 per cent. It also found that green tea had a protective
effect against both stomach and liver cancers in people who drank
alcohol.
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Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com
Comment: At around 80% cancer reduction green tea should be considered
a vaccine! This should be headline news around the world - unless it is
junk science and a planted article. Where did this story come from? The
Thai makers of green tea, the same ones who put green bottles on the
tables in television shows? Oh please...
Vagabond
PS. The wonders of Google. Someone has considered these claims:
FDA Rejects Green Tea Cancer Claims
Science Hasn't Proven Green Tea's Cancer Benefits in Humans, Says FDA
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD
on Wednesday, July 06, 2005
July 6, 2005 -- The FDA has given a thumbs-down on a bid to label green
tea as a cancer fighter.
Current scientific evidence from human studiesscientific evidence from
human studies doesn't support the claim, says the FDA's Michael Landa.
Landa is the deputy director for regulations at the Center for Food
Safety and Applied Nutrition. He wrote the FDA's response to a green
tea company's proposed cancer-prevention claim.
FDA's Verdict
Landa doesn't totally dismiss green tea. Future research will be
considered, he says.
For now, he says it is "highly unlikely" that green tea cuts breast
cancerbreast cancer or prostate cancer risk.prostate cancer risk.
Landa also says there is "no credible evidence" supporting green tea as
a fighter of other cancers, including lung, gastric, colon, rectal,
pancreatic, esophageal, skin, ovarian, or liver cancers.
Reading the Tea Leaves
All tea comes from the same leaves, but processing methods produce
different types of tea. White tea is the least processed tea type; it's
made from buds and young leaves. Next is green tea -- which is made
from more mature leaves -- and black tea.
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