The Japanese recently published some outstanding results on green tea consumption, based on findings from the 10 year Ohsaki National Health Insurance Cohort Study. This massive study involved 41,761 Japanese adults aged between 40 and 79 years and is the first of it's kind to overwhelmingly prove the value of green tea as a very real treatment for cancer.
In the study, (published in the September issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology) Dr. Toru Naganuma and his colleagues from Tohoku University School of Medicine discovered that drinking at least 5 cups a day of green tea cut the rate of blood cancers by an astounding 42%, and lymphatic cancer by 48%. What’s more, these big reductions were found to be the same in both men and women as well as people with various body mass sizes. Even more surprizing was the fact that by combining green tea with a citrus fruit, the anti-cancer benefits of green tea were increased even more. It's thought that citrus fruits stabilize the green tea ECGC antioxidants in the gut - enhancing the absorption rate significantly.
Another research team from Tohoku University’s Department of Public Health and Forensic Medicine found another strong link between green tea consumption and it's ability to prevent and even treat cancer.
Their study, published in the September issue of the journal Cancer Causes and Control found that the consumption of green tea was associated with the prevention of liver malignancies. The interesting thing was the more green tea that was consumed, the more the risk plummeted. Once again, 5 or more cups a day offered the most protection from liver cancer.
And a study published in a recent issue of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology,found the antioxidants in green tea actually slow tumor growth by binding to a particular protein on tumor cells. This effect was shown to be most beneficial with lung, breast and prostate cancers.
Further studies on green tea and cancer have also shown that green tea can actually reduce the incidence and size of tumors - by a large degree in many cases.
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