| Antioxidant content found in green tea reduces | | | | Participants fill out a questionnaire consisting of |
| the risk of developing lung cancer in smokers and | | | | questions about smoking history of green tea |
| nonsmokers. Despite this good news, researchers | | | | drinking habits and intake of fruit and vegetable |
| warn that the most effective drug to prevent it | | | | diet. Participants were also asked about family |
| is by removing the cigarette remains. Did the | | | | history of cancer. Genetic tests are also |
| researchers in Taiwan prove it? Researchers | | | | conducted to assess whether there are genetic |
| found at least a cup of green tea a day can | | | | factors effect. |
| reduce the risk of it 13 times as many | | | | The researchers found tea drinkers with genetic |
| non-smokers and 5 times for smokers. | | | | factors for this cancer have better protection |
| Researcher Dr.I-Hsin Lin of Chung Shan Medical | | | | than 66% of tea drinkers with a genetic |
| University said that health effects of drinking it | | | | background different (with no history of lung |
| may alter the risk of cancer especially in smokers. | | | | cancer) reflects the pattern of findings is related |
| Lin observed this protection effects comes from | | | | to tea, genetic factors and the risk of cancer. Lin |
| antioxidants, the polyphenols | | | | concluded that there is evidence that drinking it |
| To ensure that researchers investigate the | | | | may reduce the risk of cancer, but smoking is the |
| influence of diet and lifestyle as many as 170 | | | | main initiator and promoter of carcinogenesis. |
| patients with cancer and 340 healthy people. | | | | |