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Green Tea May Help Prevent Cancer

Reading this over a cup of coffee? Next time, try tea. A number of recent studies have shown some varieties of tea may help prevent cancer - at least in rats and mice. One, by the National Cancer Institute and the Shanghai Cancer Institute of China, found that those who drink green tea on a regular basis - at least once a week for six months or more - have a lower risk of esophageal cancer. Research in Japan found green tea may provide some protection against skin, liver and lung cancer in mice. And green tea may help explain why smokers in Japan have a lower rate of lung cancer than do Americans.

Green tea is a common beverage of choice in China and Japan, but not in the rest of the world. But black tea - the stuff in those handy little tea bags - also may have cancer-fighting properties, although the evidence isn't as clear. At Back to Nature natural food market in Cape Coral, Fla., Michael Kelienberger said his customers drink tea for health. "People drink it on a daily basis and it's just good stuff." One of the most popular tea drinks right now, he said, is kombucha tea, so named because it contains the kombucha mushroom. But Kelienberger said much of its apparent healthful properties stem from the fact that it is made with a base of green or black tea. At Mother Earth Natural Foods in South Fort Myers, Fla., manager Linda Robinette agreed that tea's healthful aspects are simple: "It's got all your polyphenols. They're like an antioxidant." Polyphenols. Antioxidants.

So what exactly are those? Polyphenol is an antioxidant - specifically, the antioxidant (-) -epigallocatechin gailate, or EGCG. Antioxidants counteract free radicals in the body, which are thought to contribute to cancer by damaging healthy DNA. In July 1994, the journal Science News quoted a Rutgers University researchers theory that "all of the teas - green and black, regular and decaf - display antioxidant properties." If that isn't enough to make you take the Nestea plunge, a research team at the University of California, Berkeley, found another substance in green tea, called hexanes, can help protect against cavities. And while coffee has been linked to heart disease, no such link exists for tea.

PRODUCT PROFILE
Each 1 ounce serving provides:

*** NO RDI Esatblished

70 Colloidal Minerals
Iron, Zinc, Iodine, Phosphorous, Magnesium, Potassium, Selenium, Copper, Manganese, Silver, Chromium, Tin, Molybdenum, Nickel, Silicon, Boron, Lithium, Vanadium, Cobalt, Sodium, Niobium, Barium, Beryllium, Osmium, Sulfur, Bismuth, Carbon, Cerium, Chlorine, Platinum, Cesium, Rubidium, Tellurium, Hafnium, Gold, Titanium, Holmium, Gallium, Strontium, Lanthanum, Indium, Tungsten, Europium, Antimony, Ytterbium, Palladium, Terbium, Gadolinium, Scandium, Rhenium, Lutetium, Dysprosium, Ruthenium, Tantalum, Erbium, Praseodymium, Neodymium, Thallium, Samarium, Nitrogen, Thorium, Hydrogen, Yttrium, Oxygen, Promethium, Zirconium, Neodymium, Bromine, Fluorine.

INSTRUCTIONS
Mix 1 oz of Green Tea with 6 to 8 ounces of water (serve hot or cold)