Drinking green tea can prevent many types of cancer?

teactivity - If you always drink green tea every day. It will be a good news for you. Because it has much benefits of our body. Many people do not know that the actual benefits of green tea contained by also able to prevent various types of cancer, such as men as prostate cancer. The people in Asia, especially in Japan and in China has become a common tradition for them to drink tea, even there own traditional ceremony tea.


With be diligent drinking green tea you can at least avoid the attack of cancer. This is at least already evident from a recent study by Columbia University Medical Center. Researchers have uncovered that men who drank six cups of green tea every day will be free from the risk of prostate cancer for men and breast cancer for women.

Consuming green tea every day is a choice for the right to prevent and inhibit the damaged cells in the body. Only sustainable consumption which gives positive effects. This can be seen in the presence of metabolic changes in people who consume green tea on a regular basis, the body becomes accustomed to burning fat faster which ultimately increases someone endurance sports.

In a study at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Hornel Institute, University of Minisota in Austin, United States indicate if the polyphenol antioxidants found in green tea and black tea was effective to inhibit a protein that cancer cells can thrive.

Green Tea Reduces Risk of Cancer

In a study involving at least 40 women and each given green tea extract is different, and the 6-month study period. The result was women who were given green tea extract increased 10-fold metabolites in their blood, so they also decreased hepatocyte. Hepatocytes is a measure of tumor cell growth, migration and invasion.

The study concluded that tea consumption is associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer in women and prostate in men. Even the older man was very good to prevent exposure to the risk of the deadly disease. With green tea drinking six cups of green tea each day or add to up to 800 mg of green tea extract very good standard to protect against breast and prostate cancer.

Green Tea could inhibit the growth of cancer cells

In a study at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Hornel Institute, University of Minisota in Austin, United States indicate if the polyphenol antioxidants found in green tea and black tea was effective to inhibit a protein that cancer cells can thrive.


Ziag Dong, MD, as leader in the research, adding that Green Tea and Black Tea may inhibit cancer by limiting enlargement of blood vessels located around the tumor.

in the study of the Dartmouth Medical School commonly known that they consume two or more cups of tea per day had a 35 percent less likely than squamous cell cancer compared with those who did not drink tea.

Green Tea prevent Prostate Cancer

a nutrient called isoflavones have been associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer. Isoflavones are found in tofu (from soybeans), peanuts, and lentils. in addition, some studies have also shown that men who drink green tea or green tea extract supplements have a lower risk of prostate cancer compared with those who did not eat them.

From a study, noted that men who drank five cups of tea a day had a 33 percent lower risk for prostate cancer stage 4. Drinking five cups of tea every day can reduce the risk of prostate cancer 2 to 25 percent. This comparison with men who drank only one cup of tea per day.


Stage 2 prostate cancer occurs when a tumor grows in the prostate gland, but did not spread. In stage 4, the cancer has spread to other areas such as the spleen, bone, and liver. Reported by the Daily mail.

Green Tea May Lower Risk Of Some Cancers In Women

The research, first reported by Reuters and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, shows an association between regular green tea consumption -- at least three times weekly -- in older women and a lower risk of colon, throat and stomach cancers.

The study drew from data from the Shanghai Women's Health Study, which included 69,310 nonsmoking, non-drinking Chinese women (all of whom were middle or older age) who entered the study between 1996 and 2000. After 11 years, there were 1,255 cases of cancer of the digestive system.

Researchers found an association between green tea consumption and cancer risk, with those reporting regular green tea consumption having a 14 percent lower risk of developing cancer of the digestive system. And their risk of cancer only went down with the more green tea they reported drinking, and the longer they reported drinking tea regularly.

Green Tea pressing Breast Cancer Risk

According to the study, among the benefits of drinking green tea is to prevent breast and prostate cancer.

Researchers have presented the results of their research that describes the specific mechanism of green tea consumption. In the research explained that drinking green tea can inhibit vascular endothelial growth factor and hepatocyte growth factor. Both these can increase the growth, migration, and invasion of tumor cells.

"The results of this study confirmed that drinking six cups of green tea every day or supplemented with 800 mg of green tea extract to protect against breast and prostate cancer," according to experts.