Regular consumption of green tea can help ward off lung cancer.
Green tea may reduce the risk of lung cancer, particularly for smokers, according to a study released this week.
At least a cup a day was associated with more than 5-fold lower lung cancer risk among Taiwanese adults, reported I-Hsin Lin, of the Chung Shan Medical University in Zhonghe City, Taiwan, and colleagues.
Moreover, for current and former smokers, regular green tea intake was associated with a nearly 13-fold lower risk than abstaining from the drink, suggesting that the antioxidants in tea have “an inhibitory effect…elicited by smoking,” the researchers said.
These findings were reported at the American Association for Cancer Research-International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Joint Conference on Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer.
“We suggest smokers or nonsmokers, both of them, should drink green tea to keep away from lung cancer,” Lin told MedPage Today. “However, the cessation of smoking is the best way for cancer prevention.”
