Green Tea Fights Prostate Cancer
Looks like the Siamese cat is out of the bag! Experts have discovered consuming green tea may slow the progression of prostate cancer.
Some suggest great tea has many health benefits, such as halting Alzheimer's disease, reducing the negative effects of cholesterol and preventing cancer. But, these are largely unproven claims.
Worldwide, the tea market is worth roughly $941million, with green tea making up 20% of the total global production. But, with research like this, green tea's intrigue will surely grow.
For the study, published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, 26 men, ages 41 to 72, consuming a green extract for 34 days were found to have significant reductions of growth factors and prostate specific antigen. Both are associated with the development of prostate cancer.
Scientists insist most cancers are preventable and consuming plant-derived substances, compounds, nutrients and antioxidants play an important role in lowering the risk and progression of cancer.
Now, I don't have any gripe with tea. At a cool restaurant it's fun to chill out with a cup of tea, but the claims about tea's antioxidants are weird. Why drink a lot of tea - and have to pee all the time - when you can just as easily overhaul your diet with fruits and vegetables, which are loaded with antioxidants, and other nutrients.
We shouldn't treat green tea as a magic potion, or some sort of ancient Chinese secret. Drinking gallons of green tea, but continuing to eat the same horrible American diet isn't going to do you much good.
Via: Nutra Ingredients.
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Interesting. I wonder where the punters are that claimed green tea is just a fad diet?
Some people spend more energy bashing diets than being constructive. Unitl I went online I did not realize how tribal the diet community can be. Why can't people see a little good in all diets. Most are completely harmless like the so called green tea fad. I believe green tea can help you. The longest living people in the world drink heaps of it.
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ReplyGood point about diet tribalism. It gets kind of scary if you ever venture into the raw food diet arena. All sorts of arguments about what food groups you should eat, whether certain things are really raw, etc., etc.
That said, there is at least one good reason to drink green tea: when you make it properly, it tastes good on its own. I've never noticed that with black tea.
ReplyIt is all madness, isn't it.
Good Luck to you.
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ReplyIf you like green tea, drink it, if not & you are eating pretty healthy anyway, better that than not. I have read about the benefit of tea for years but I just don't like the taste of it. FJ is trying to get me to drink it but my taste buds don't go that way. I figure if I am doing a lot of other good things for myself health wise, I am at least on the right track. I can't eat every little thing that is proven to help prevent cancer, heart disease & all the rest but if I am eating some of them & exercising both cardio/weights/flexibility then I am doing the best I can.
Been drinking green tea for years. I save the used tea bags and let them soak in a chilled water container ... to make iced green tea ... no sugar or other additaves ... just the used tea bags and chilled water. Pretty bitter but refreshing ... probably an acquired taste ... but I like it ... my response to making your diet green I guess ... unfortunately I eat too much and exercise too little so I am ovwer weight ..
ReplyGreen tea shouldn't taste bitter at all. How are you steeping it the first time? Never steep with boiling (only hot) water and probably no more than two and a half minutes.
ReplyI've been a fan of green tea for years too. I save the used ones and even throw them in my bath water. I agree that it isn't much good to drink alot of something good only to eat a lot of something bad. Just doesn't work that way. I drink only one or two cups a day, but mostly because I've given up coffee due to high blood pressure. Linda
ReplyI agree...if you like green tea, go for it - if not, I wouldn't change on the basis of this study. There is some preclinical (i.e. on cells in a dish and in mice) evidence that green tea may help with lots of conditions, but trials on humans are pretty inconclusive. This study doesn't have a control group and has a tiny sample size, so it belongs with all the other inconclusive results. I've got more information on my blog at http://www.blue-genes.net/2009/06/does-green-tea-slow-prostate-cancer/.
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