Gallons of benefits in just two cups of tea

May 16, 2006

Drink up to prevent ovarian cancer, latest study suggests

By Karen Collins, R.D.

New research supports and expands on previous studies to suggest that a

lower risk of ovarian cancer may be as close as your teacup. Among a

large group of Swedish women, those who drank at least two cups of tea a

day developed 46 percent less ovarian cancer than non-tea drinkers.

Black tea, which is the most popular tea in the U.S., is what most of

these tea drinkers consumed, rather than the green tea, which is more

common among Asian populations.

This latest study linking tea with less ovarian cancer followed more

than 61,000 Swedish middle-aged and older women for about 15 years.

Those who drank at least two daily cups of tea had the lowest rates of

this cancer, but even one cup a day decreased a woman's risk by 24 percent.

Admittedly, tea-drinkers tend to have healthier lifestyles in many

Western cultures than the general population because they exercise more,

drink less alcohol, practice better weight control and eat more

vegetables. In this study, however, other possible influences were taken

into account. The lowered risk appeared after adjustments were made for

factors influencing ovarian cancer risk, like a woman's weight, age,

past pregnancies and consumption of calories, fruits, vegetables and

alcohol.

Since the study took place in Sweden, which is a nation of coffee

drinkers, it's important to note that coffee consumption was unrelated

to risk. The benefits of tea weren't due to drinking less coffee. Of

course, some unidentified aspect of the tea drinkers' lifestyle or diet

could still be involved in the reduced cancer risk.

An earlier study compared women with ovarian cancer to a group of

healthy women. Daily tea drinkers were 60 percent less likely to develop

this type of cancer, and those who had drunk tea for more than thirty

years had a more than 75 percent lower risk. Black or oolong tea seemed

as protective as green tea, but since this study took place in China,

more than 90 percent of the tea drinkers chose green tea.

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