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Consuming green tea may lower the risk of developing lung cancer among smokers and non-smokers alike, a new study has concluded. <\/p>\nConsuming green tea may lower the risk of developing lung cancer among smokers and non-smokers alike, a new study has concluded. <\/p>\n
Researchers from the Chung Shan Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan, found that respondents who drank at least one cup of green tea per day had a five-fold lower risk of developing lung cancer than those who did not. <\/p>\n
Among smokers, participants who consumed a minimum of one cup of green tea every day had a 13-fold lower risk than those who drank no tea. <\/p>\n
The team also found that the antioxidants in the beverage had a greater therapeutic effect on people with specific growth factor genotypes.<\/p>\n
While the results of the study suggest the potential health benefits associated with green tea, doctors warn that it is not a substitute for quitting smoking. <\/p>\n
"People will look at this and think, ‘Oh, well, I can smoke as long as I have a few cups of green tea’," said Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, quoted by News Day<\/em>. "Nothing could be further from the truth." <\/p>\n "The most important thing here is that we don’t want anyone to get the message that it’s okay to smoke so long as I drink green tea," he added. Consuming green tea may lower the risk of developing lung cancer among smokers and non-smokers alike, a new study has concluded. Researchers from the Chung Shan Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan, found that respondents who drank at least one cup of green tea per day had a five-fold lower risk of developing lung cancer than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GxC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19556548-ADNFCR\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\")
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