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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Cancer Prevention And Green Tea Consumption


Most of us are scared rigid of contracting cancer. That is perfectly understandable - who wants to spend a couple of years experiencing chemotherapy just to die a few years later? Or even if you recover it is a few years out of your life that have been worrying and gruelling. And not just for the patient but for friends and family as well.

So, individuals do everything they can to reduce the risks of contracting cancer. Most of us do not think we know how to do this, others are not certain, but they have heard or read something that sounds 'around about correct' and others are convinced that they know how to avoid getting cancer.

My wife is certain that I might get cancer from eating burnt toast and others are convinced that they can stave off cancer by saturating their flesh with green tea. It has frequently been pointed out and for decades too, that countries where green tea is the norm, say the Far East, have a much lower rate of cancer than we do in the West. [Search Amazon.com for green tea extract]

And this is probably true at the moment. But why is it a fact? I live in Asia and diabetes is the number one cause of death near me. Do Asians not get cancer as much as we do because they drink green tea or for other reasons?

In fact, where I live in Northern Thailand, I have never seen anyone drink tea or coffee or accept a cup off me, except my wife. People here drink water or alcohol, depending on the time of day. Kids like Cola or Sprite or whatever because they watch too much TV, but drink a lot of water.

It is said that green tea is an anti-oxidant and it is alleged that anti-oxidants help get rid of free radicals which could cause cancer. If this is true, then the claims for green tea are maybe more substantial.

However, the claims are so all-embracing that it makes me sceptical. I am reading a report just now that claims that green tea will prevent the formation of cancerous cells in the: "... aesophagus, bladder, on the skin, in the ovaries, the pancreas and the prostate".

That is a very tall order indeed.

The problem for me with all these claims is that they are not corroborated - there are no references that you can follow that do not lead to businesses selling green tea. This is a difficulty.

Some will say that the government or the pharmaceutical companies are suppressing the information because they want to sell more expensive drugs - and this may be a fact - grist to the mill for conspiracy theorists and retailers of Chinese tea.

Now that we appear to be entering into a 'new era', a more sceptical and more enlightened era (thanks a great deal to the World Wide Web), couldn't someone do some investigation on green tea and Acai berries and all the rest of the stuff you read of in your junk emails and put an end once and for all to the false hopes, if that is what they are, that we are being sold each day by unscrupulous advertisers hoping for a quick buck? [Search Amazon.com for green tea extract]


About the Author:

Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on quite a few topics, but is now involved with the stages of ovarian cancer. If you want to know more, please visit our web site at Signs and Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer

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