guys: if you eat soy, make sure you're getting zinc supplements. for guys to be sure you get adequate zinc is a good idea on GP. the ladies don't have to be too concerned about this issue. lucky ladies. you have other things to worry about.
yours in good health ;-)
R (aka Dr. Science)
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From: Mike Ballard
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 12:58 AM
Subject: [lbo-talk] A public service announcement......
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That's all folks,
Mike B)
Green tea 'cuts prostate cancer risk'
By Tim Clarke
05Nov03
DRINKING green tea can dramatically reduce the risk of
men
contracting prostate cancer, a study by Australian
researchers has
discovered.
The study, by scientists at Perth's Curtin University
and Zhejiang
Cancer Hospital in China, discovered men who drink
green tea daily
have one-third the risk of prostate cancer compared
with non-tea
drinkers,
The habitual drinking of the tea over many years can
reduce the risk
even more, according to the study to be published in
the
International Journal of Cancer.
Professor Colin Binns, from Curtin's school of public
health, led the
Australian side of the study along with researchers Dr
Andy Lee and
Le Jian.
Dr Lee said green tea was the most prevalent in China,
but black tea
could be as beneficial.
"In Australia the incidence of prostate cancer is very
high, but in
China the incidence is very low. That is the reason
that we thought
there is something these people do over there that is
different from
here." Dr Lee said.
"We accounted for all the other risk factors, such as
smoking and
alcohol, but even after all that the effect of tea
still stood out."
The study compared 130 Chinese men with prostate
cancer with 274 men
without the cancer, using China because it has a
larger population of
people who drink only tea, while Australian men tend
to drink a
variety of beverages.
Dr Lee said the beneficial effects could also be
enhanced because the
Chinese tend to drink their tea pure.
"Experimental findings show the antioxidants in the
green tea are
slightly more than in other types," Dr Lee said.
"Drinking the tea directly means that the tea will not
interact with
other substances like milk and sugar."
Green tea has long been valued by Chinese as a natural
remedy, with
powerful antioxidants called catechins shown in
studies to fight
viruses and slow aging.
Traditionally it has been used to improve digestion,
boost energy and
help with liver detoxification, whilst also said to
reduce high blood
pressure and lower blood sugar.
The findings of the latest Curtin study followed a
discovery by the
same research team that drinking green tea reduced the
risk of
ovarian cancer in women.
Dr Lee said their studies have also recently shown
that drinking the
tea may prevent the contraction of ovarian cancer as
well as helping
those already suffering the disease.
"Early findings show that the tea also enhances
survival of those
women with ovarian cancer," Dr Lee said.
This report appears on news.com.au.
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