RE: caffeine and skin cancer

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

About all I could come up with was:

Lu YP, Lou YR, Lin Y, Shih WJ, Huang MT, Yang CS, Conney AH. Inhibitory effects of orally administered green tea, black tea, and caffeine on skin carcinogenesis in mice previously treated with ultraviolet B light (high-risk mice): relationship to decreased tissue fat.Cancer Res. 2001 Jul 1;61(13):5002-9.PMID: 11431333 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Maybe CR works this way, by reducing fat? Ultraviolet light simulates the sun-associated risk.

Cheers, Al.

-----Original Message-----From: Francesca Skelton [mailto:fskelton@...]Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 9:38 AMsupport groupSubject: [ ] caffeine and skin cancerI heard a news clip last nite that caffeine may have some beneficial effectregarding the prevention of skin cancer. Al Pater: is there anything inthe literature?I'm beginning to feel that caffeine is one of those foods depicted in themovie "Sleeper" where a modern day Rip Van Winkle is brought back to lifeto discover that foods once declared "bad" are really "good".