| Drinking green tea may help defend women from | | | | important player in the cancer preventing and |
| getting breast cancer. This is a good news from a | | | | fighting qualities of green tea. How it works is still |
| study by researchers at the Boston University | | | | unclear, but it may inhibit cell replication enzymes |
| Schools of Medicine and Public Health. According to | | | | (preventing cancer growth) as well as other |
| the statistics the incidence of breast cancer in | | | | cellular processes that are too complicated to get |
| regions where green tea is consumed in large | | | | into. |
| quantities, notably China and Japan and India is | | | | In various studies, rats with breast tumors were |
| much lower than in western societies. | | | | given green tea to drink and compared to similar |
| Green tea is accredited with a wide variety of | | | | rats that only drank water. The green-tea-rats |
| health benefits. One important effect that green | | | | had reductions in tumor size, and new tumors |
| tea seems to have is to fight and/or prevent | | | | were slower to develop. |
| breast cancer. Green Tea contains EGCG (epigallo | | | | Japanese scientists of the Saitama Cancer |
| catechin gallate) one of the most powerful | | | | Research Institute have done considerable study |
| antioxidant of the polyphenol family. | | | | of the delay of cancer onset with the |
| When it comes to treatment and prevention of | | | | consumption of Green Tea. The study shows that |
| breast cancer , it's the polyphenols that are | | | | early stage breast cancer spreads less rapidly in |
| important. Green tea has the highest bioavailable | | | | women with a history of green tea consumption. |
| amounts of these antioxidants. Of all the different | | | | As a result, there is a lower recurrence rate and |
| polyphenols. EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) is a | | | | a longer disease free period. |
| very powerful antioxidant and is believed to be an | | | | |