Green Tea please!



Food for Thought : Another Green That Might Prevent Breast Cancer, Science News Online, Sept. 13, 2003



Wu and her coworkers acknowledge that many factors could have influenced the women's risk of breast cancer. For instance, it could be that green tea drinkers have fewer unhealthy habits such as smoking tobacco and drinking alcohol. However, the researchers probed for such confounding factors and found that green tea's apparent benefit persisted no matter how much a woman smoked or drank. Other factors that the researchers found didn't erase the green tea's effect were a woman's consumption of red meat, processed meats, poultry, milk, coffee, or fish; how much she exercised; and whether she had a history of breast cancer in her family.