Coffee is for my morning and tea is for the rest of the day. I like a nice strong black tea after lunch; then lighter green and mint teas for afternoon and evening. It’s good to know that I am protecting my health as I drink!
Tea Tippling Linked to Lower Ovarian Cancer Risk
"STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 12 - Middle-age women who drink two or more cups of green or black tea every day may reduce their risk for invasive epithelial ovarian cancer by almost half, epidemiologists here reported.
In a prospective population-based study, Karolinska Institute researchers found a dose-response relationship between the amount of tea a woman consumed and her risk for ovarian cancer, after controlling for potential confounders (P for trend, .03).
Susanna C. Larsson, MSc., and colleagues reported in the Dec. 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Women who consumed two cups or more per day lowered their risk for ovarian cancer by 46%, with each additional cup of tea lowering the risk by another 18% (multivariate hazard ratio, 0.82; 95% confidence interval, 0.68-0.99).
Tea's compounds have been extensively studied as chemopreventive agents, the investigators wrote, yet tea's potential against ovarian cancer specifically had yet to be established.
These antioxidant polyphenols, which include catechins, theaflavins, thearubigins, and flavonols, "are abundantly present in both green and black teas and have been shown to inhibit carcinogenesis," Larsson and colleagues wrote.
However, the study also found the women who drank tea also tended to be in better health."
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