Green Tea Helps With Cancer Treatment

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Green Tea Helps With Cancer Treatment

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One of the biggest health concerns most people have today is

preventing cancer. Incidences of cancer and in the cancer

mortality rate in the United States have risen each year for the

last fifty. The age-adjusted cancer mortality rate in 1930 was

143 per 100,000 members of the population, but by 1990, it had

risen to 174 per 100,000 in 1990.

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Green Tea Helps With Cancer Treatment

Copyright © 2006 Marcus Stout

Golden Moon Tea

http://www.GoldenMoonTea.com

One of the biggest health concerns most people have today is

preventing cancer. Incidences of cancer and in the cancer

mortality rate in the United States have risen each year for the

last fifty. The age-adjusted cancer mortality rate in 1930 was

143 per 100,000 members of the population, but by 1990, it had

risen to 174 per 100,000 in 1990.

Medical technology has come along way in treating this insidious

disease, but we still don't appear to know a great deal about

preventing many types of cancer. And, even with the treatments

that we do have, 300 people in the United States die from cancer

every single day.

Many of our country's deaths from cancer are completely

preventable. For example, about 90 percent of the one million

skin cancers in the United States that were diagnosed in 2005

could have been prevented by protection from sun. The American

Cancer Society estimates that in 2006 about 170,000 lives will be

lost to cancer because of tobacco use, so these too are

completely preventable.

However, there are many other cancers that we cannot prevent, in

part because we don't know what causes them. But, there may be a

product already in your cupboard that can help prevent, or even

treat, cancer. Over the past several years, medical science has

begun to scientifically prove out what Asian culture seems to

have known for years; tea, particularly green tea is effective in

preserving health.

The Chinese have used green tea for centuries to treat everything

from headaches to depression. One of the most significant health

benefits that green tea appears to provide is prevention against

certain types of cancer. But, the studies are getting even more

promising. It looks as though green tea can be an effective

treatment for certain types of cancer, too.

Tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. Therefore, what we

refer to as " herb tea " is not really tea at all, but rather an

herbal infusion. There are many different types of tea; most of

the differences come from the way the tea is processed.

Tea leaves naturally contain catechins. Catechins belong to the

flavan-3-ol class of flavonoids. EGCG is one of the many

catechins contained in tea, and is considered to be the most

powerful anti-oxidant in tea leaves.

Fermenting the tea leaves, which is part of processing tea leaves

for black tea, converts these catechins to other compounds and

reduces their health benefits. Therefore, green tea, because it

is not fermented, retains more of its original anti-oxidants than

black tea. Scientists have discovered that tea is healthy

primarily because of these anti-oxidants.

Each day, as we convert the foods we eat into energy, we create

free radicals in our body. These free radicals are oxygen

containing molecules that can damage our cells and our DNA if we

don't combat them. It is believed that unchecked free radicals

contribute to the development of cancer.

Anti-oxidants are powerful free radical combatants. Fruits and

vegetables are also high in anti-oxidants. Anti-oxidants are

linked with preventing cancer, and a decreased risk of stroke,

heart disease and lower blood cholesterol.

In addition to these anti-oxidants, all teas, whether black,

white or green contain calcium, magnesium, potassium and vitamins

C and K. Green tea is also appears to be very good for your

teeth.

As exciting as it is to think that green tea may be helpful in

preventing cancer; what's even more exciting is that it may also

be a powerful treatment for cancer. In one recent study by the

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka,

Japan*, research showed that green tea, when combined with the

drug Adriamycin, was more effective in treating a certain kind of

ovarian sarcoma (cancer of the ovaries) than using the adriamycin

alone.

In fact, the cancer cells in the rats in the study were not very

responsive at all to the drug when it was administered alone; but

when administered along with the substance in tea called

theanine, the rats became extremely responsive to the treatment.

The rats showed a much higher concentration of the drug in their

cancer cells when the drug was administered along with the

theanine.

This combination of andriamycin and theanine appears to inhibit

the growth of tumors; suggesting that cancer patients might be

able to avoid progression of their tumors and might be less

susceptible to developing new tumors, when green tea substances

are used in conjunction with cancer drugs.

This is, of course, very exciting news. Cancer treatment

typically has two facets. The first is killing the cancerous

cells that already exist in the body. The second is preventing

new cancer cells from growing, both in the organ where the cancer

originated, and in other organs (metastasis).

If green tea can help with both aspects of cancer treatment, as

well as preventing cancer in the first place, we may be closer

than ever to dramatically reducing the incidence of or even

eradicating this disease. Of course, far more research is needed,

but these results are promising, indeed.

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Marcus Stout is the President of the Golden Moon Tea Company. Golden Moon Tea

carefully selects the finest rare and orthodox teas, which are processed slowly

and handcrafted with extreme care. At their website, you can learn more about

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(http://www.goldenmoontea.com/greentea), white tea, black tea, oolong tea (also

known as wu-long and wu long tea - http://www.goldenmoontea.com/wu-long) and

chai. Visit http://www.goldenmoontea.com for all details concerning the Golden

Moon Tea Company's fine line of teas.