Thursday, April 19, 2007
Tea 'could cut skin cancer risk'
The good old cuppa just keeps getting better and better. A study suggests that chemicals in tea could protect against skin cancer. The best way to avoid it is still to protect your skin, ovbviously, but every little helps.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.
Those who drank two or more cups a day had a 65% lower risk of developing squamous cell carcinoma.
Tea-drinking also appeared to protect against basal cell carcinoma, but to a lesser degree.
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posted by I at 2:34 pm
