Habitual Drinking of Green Tea Linked to 29% Lower
Risk of Stomach Cancer
Participants: 1,422 people, half of whom had
primary stomach cancer, half of whom did not.
Where: Shanghai, China
Type of study: Population-based case control
What happened: Those who drank green tea
"habitually" (one cup or more per week for at least 6 months) had a 29% lower
risk of stomach cancer than those who did not. It didn't seem to matter how old the individual was
when he or she began drinking green tea.
Researchers' conclusion: "Green tea may disrupt
gastric carcinogenesis at both the intermediate and the late stages."
Citation: Yu GP, Hsieh CC, Wang LY, et al. Green
tea consumption and risk of stomach cancer: a population-based case-control
study in Shanghai, China. Cancer Causes & Control 1995;6(6):532-38. (Click
here to read PubMed study abstract.)
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