Drinking Green Tea May Help to Reduce the Risk of Developing Gastrointestinal Cancer

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Drinking Green Tea May Help to Reduce the Risk of Developing Gastrointestinal

Cancer

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Tea drinkers will be happy to learn that they just might be

protecting themselves against the risks of developing stomach

and intestinal cancers. It appears that green tea can help

fight gastrointestinal carcinogenesis. This is the process by

which normal cells in the gastrointestinal tract can be

transformed into cancer cells.

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Drinking Green Tea May Help to Reduce the Risk of Developing Gastrointestinal

Cancer

Copyright © 2006 Jon M. Stout

Golden Moon Tea

http://www.GoldenMoonTea.com

Green tea has been found to contain high levels of antioxidants

which are considered very beneficial in the fight against cancer.

Antioxidants are compounds that can oxidize very easily, or in

other words sacrifice one of their molecules to carcinogens,

which are compounds looking to steal molecules from normal,

healthy cells. Carcinogens, or free radicals, in the body are

considered cancer causing agents because they damage the body's

cells by stealing molecules. This can cause the cells to grow out

of control, thus developing into cancer cells.

Green tea is thought to be extremely beneficial because the tea

leaves are fresh and unfermented, thus preserving the

antioxidants, called catechins, present in the leaves. The tea

leaves come from the plant Camellia sinensis, which is the same

plant that black tea comes from. The difference lies in how the

leaves are treated. The black tea leaves undergo the oxidation

process, which oxidizes much of the specific antioxidants that

are present in the green tea leaves. Of course, black teas have

been found to contain many beneficial and unique antioxidants of

their own, but do not contain the same amount of antioxidants as

green tea.

These catechins found in green tea are considered better and

stronger antioxidants than those found in black tea because they

are water soluble and oxidize very easily, giving them a better

chance of neutralizing free radicals before they have that chance

to damage the body's cells.

There are currently 30 epidemiological studies of green tea's

use in the prevention of cancer. However, there are very few

studies on the treatment of preexisting cancers with green tea. A

majority of the studies on green tea deal with whether the

antioxidants present in the tea leaves help prevent

gastrointestinal cancers.

One particular study on laboratory rats showed that 93.8% of a

group of rats fed the extracted catechins from green tea survived

after exposure to a strong mammary carcinogen (DMBA). This is

compared to only 33.3% of the control group of rats not fed the

protective catechins.

In another study was conducted on 1004 Chinese men: 190 of who

had gastric cancer, 42 of whom had esophageal cancer, and 772 of

whom were cancer free.

These men were studied over the course of 4 to 12 years. Those

participants who were known to drink green tea on a regular basis

showed a 50% lower risk of developing gastric and esophageal

cancers. This is a significant difference. It basically means

that 50% fewer participants in the tea drinker's group developed

cancer than of those in the group found not to drink tea on a

regular basis.

There are a total of about eight studies that show drinking green

tea on a regular basis can reduce the risk of stomach cancer.

It's possible that green tea is also more effective in the

prevention of esophageal and stomach cancers because it moves

through the intestinal tract and is in direct, prolonged contact

with those tissues.

Many researchers are saying that it is still too early to state

conclusively that green tea can help to protect its drinkers from

developing gastrointestinal cancers or even help fight the cancer

that has all ready developed. However, the current clinical

studies look promising. Many tea drinkers claim the possible

benefits of drinking green tea outweigh any small

inconveniences.

Green tea has been used for hundreds of thousands of years in

China and Japan. In fact, the numbers indicating the risks of

developing gastrointestinal cancers in those two countries are

among the lowest in the world

Not all green teas are the same. There is a wide variance among

green teas concerning freshness, consistency, and concentration

of the antioxidants in the teas. Information about the

concentration of the antioxidants can sometimes be found on the

packaging. It is best to find your preferred brand of green tea

and stick to it, drinking the tea habitually.

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Jon M. Stout is the Chairman of the Golden Moon Tea Company.

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