Study results reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicate that antioxidants found in green tea, known as polyphenols, may effectively reduce the incidence and severity of rheumatoid arthritis. The lead author of the study was Dr. Tariq Haqqi of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Haqqi and his team of researchers used mice to study the effect of polyphenols in rheumatoid arthritis, a disease characterized by inflammation, pain, swelling, and joint destruction.

The mice in the study were given either plain water or water enriched with green tea. The dosages given were comparable to human consumption of four cups of green tea per day. The mice were then injected with collagen for the purpose of inducing arthritis. Collagen-induced arthritis is considered very similar to human rheumatoid arthritis

a recent Japanese study found that Green tea may block lung cancer.Drinking a cup of green tea a day may reduce the risk of developing lung cancer for both smokers and non-smokers ,according to a new Taiwanese study.
Researchers said smokers and non-smokers alike who did not drink green tea were five times more likely to develop lung cancer when compared to people who consumed one cup a day .Smokers who didnot drink green tea increased their risk 13-fold.
“The antioxidants may inhibit tumor growth ,”I-Hsin Lin,a master’s degree student at Chun Shan Medical University in Taiwan ,told WebMD.She presented her findings Tuesday at a lung cancer conference in Coronado,Calif.
The researchers studied 170 lung cancer patients and 340 healthy patients ,quizzing them on their somking histories,green tea comsumption ,and other lifestyle habits.Lin also found that green tea drinkers who are not genetically susceptible to lung cancer had a 66 percent reduced risk.

Lowering lung cancer risk is one in a long list of benefits derived from drinking green tea. It is also believed to reduce other types of cancer ,ease depression in elderly ,and even smooth wrinkles.But green tea dinking smokers should feel they are getting a free pass if they continue to light up.

“What the American Lung Association is really afraid of,” Dr.Norman Edelman,chief medical officer of the American Lung Association ,told HealthDay,”is that people will look at this and think ,’oh,well,i can smoke as long as i have a few cups of green tea.’Nothing could be further from the truth.

Smoking is extremely toxic,obviously,and extremely detrimental to your health .And nothing changes this fact.So the most important thing here is that we don’t want anyone to get the message that it’s ok to smoke so long as i drink green tea.

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Results are good and the fact that tea has many benefits in our body. It has more benefits than drinking coffee. It has a lower caffeine concentration than coffee, or i think tea has no caffein at all, correct me if I'm wrong. You can <a href="
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