Posts Tagged ‘Green Tea’

February 20 Summary Report

I don’t eat or cook much meat, which is good, as reported here:

Frying meat on a gas burner may be more harmful to health than using an electric burner, because of the type of fumes it produces.

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New evidence that green tea may help fight glaucoma and other eye diseases

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Scientists have confirmed that the healthful substances found in green tea — renowned for their powerful antioxidant and disease-fighting properties — do penetrate into tissues of the eye.

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Latest Health Research

Good and bad news in the latest health research reports.

I drink lots of green tea, which is good, and don’t smoke, which is even better:

Green tea fights lung cancer risk for smokers:

Among smokers and non-smokers, those who did not drink green tea had a 5.16-fold increased risk of lung cancer compared with those who drank at least one cup of green tea per day.

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Green tea fights lung cancer risk for smokers

Drinking green tea could modulate the effect of smoking on lung cancer. Results of this hospital-based, randomized study conducted in Taiwan were presented at the AACR-IASLC Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer, held there from Jan.

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Green tea may protect liver cells

Green tea may protect liver cells and reduce the deposition of collagen fibers in the liver. Green tea provides a safe and effective strategy for improving hepatic fibrosis.

Several studies have shown that lipid peroxidation stimulates collagen production in fibroblasts and hepatic stellate cells (HSC), and plays an important role in the development of liver fibrosis.

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Jon’s Health Tips – Latest Reports

According to the most recent health research reports, statins, including (I hope) red yeast rice, which I now take, fight cancer, diabetes and Parkinson’s and, specifically, by lowering cholesterol, some types of prostate cancer.

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