Reducing Your Breast Cancer Risk With Green Tea

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Reducing Your Breast Cancer Risk With Green Tea

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This year, 40,000 women will die from breast cancer, and over

200,000 will be diagnosed with the disease. Researchers are hard

at work to determine ways to prevent breast cancer, helping women

learn how to protect themselves from this frightening disease.

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Reducing Your Breast Cancer Risk With Green Tea

Copyright © 2007 Marcus Stout

Golden Moon Tea

http://www.GoldenMoonTea.com

This year, 40,000 women will die from breast cancer, and over

200,000 will be diagnosed with the disease. Researchers are hard

at work to determine ways to prevent breast cancer, helping women

learn how to protect themselves from this frightening disease.

As it stands today, about 13% of American women will develop

breast cancer at some point during their lifetime. A better

understanding of the causes of breast cancer and ways to prevent

it can help us reduce that number in our lifetime.

We know that a healthy diet and exercise are important to

preventing breast and other cancers. In particular, a diet rich

in anti-oxidants can help the body age gracefully and avoid

diseases like cancer and heart disease.

Anti-oxidants are important because they fight free radicals

created in the body as it converts food to energy. These free

radicals can cause disease and aging over time. Anti-oxidants and

their ability to check free radicals help to keep our bodies

young and healthy.

Fruits and vegetables are among the best sources of

anti-oxidants. In particular, vegetables such as artichokes,

tomatoes, and asparagus along with fruits like blueberries and

pomegranates can help reduce your chances of disease and keep you

young.

Another significant source of anti-oxidants is green tea. Green

tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant, as does all true tea.

Green tea is higher in anti-oxidants than black tea because it is

not fermented during processing. The lack of fermentation leaves

the tea plant's anti-oxidants in their most natural and

protective state, making it one of the most protective substances

you can consume.

Scientists have spent years researching the potential of green

tea, particularly its ability to prevent, and even treat cancers,

including breast cancer. They have learned that green tea offers

much potential in prevention of breast cancer.

One study in particular looked at women in Singapore who had a

higher than average risk of breast cancer. This study, reported

by the UK Tea Council, studied women who had a high level of

angiotensin II activity. Angiotensin is an ogliopeptide in the

blood that causes blood vessels to constrict, causing high blood

pressure. It also releases aldosterone from the adrenal cortex.

Aldosterone is a hormone that regulates potassium and sodium in

the blood.

Women who have low angiotensin II activity seem to be at a lower

risk for breast cancer. Therefore, researchers theorized that

women with high angiotensin II activity would be more susceptible

to the protective effects of green tea.

So, in this study, researchers looked at 297 women with breast

cancer and just over 600 control subjects. The study concluded

that among the women with high angiotensin II activity, green tea

was able to significantly lower the risk of breast cancer. The

green tea did not appear to have a protective effect on the women

with lower than average angiotensin II activity.*

This study didn't show that it was necessary to consume green

tea in large quantities in order to see benefit. The study

concluded that women who drank green tea weekly were at a lower

risk than those who drank it only monthly or not at all.

This conclusion is on target with other research that has shown

that drugs which inhibit angiotensin activity (drugs to treat

high blood pressure) reduce a woman's risk of breast cancer over

those women whose blood pressure goes untreated. It seems that

keeping angiotensin II at bay is effective at reducing blood

pressure problems and lowering breast cancer risk at the same

time.

This is promising news for those who may be at a higher

uncontrollable risk of breast cancer. Angiotensin activity, like

some other risk factors for breast cancer, such as family

history, cannot be controlled or moderated. But, if green tea can

lessen the impact of angiotensin II activity, this may minimize

the risk of breast cancer for a large group of higher risk

women.

We all know that it's important for each of us to take an active

role in protecting our health. And, as more research is

performed, it becomes more evident that drinking green tea is an

especially simple and effective way to do so.

Adding green tea to your daily life is simple and delicious.

Green tea is available loose, in bottles and in tea bags. You can

make your own cup of hot tea to warm up a cold night, keep a

pitcher of iced green tea in the refrigerator, or grab a bottled

green tea on the way to your workout.

You can find green tea flavored with many different fruit flavors

to suit any palate. And, if that still doesn't get you enough

green tea to help your health, there are green tea supplements,

too. Simply pop a green tea supplement with your vitamins each

day to help get an extra dose. Keep in mind that it appears that

even drinking moderate amounts of green tea can help protect your

health.

So, grab a cup of green tea. You're certain to enjoy it, and you

may be protecting your health, too!

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Marcus Stout is the President of the Golden Moon Tea

Company. Golden Moon Tea carefully selects the finest

rare and orthodox teas, which are processed slowly

and handcrafted with extreme care. At their website,

you can learn more about their current tea offerings,

including their exceptional green tea

(http://www.goldenmoontea.com/greentea), white tea,

black tea (http://www.goldenmoontea.com/blacktea),

oolong tea (also known as wu-long and wu long tea)

and chai. Visit http://www.goldenmoontea.com for

all details concerning the Golden Moon Tea Company's

fine line of teas.