If you are a tea lover there is good news for you! You have less chances of having ovarian cancer suggest couple of recently conducted researches. Two studies, one carried out by The University of Washington and the other by National Institute of Environmental Medicine in Stockholm, hint towards this fact.
Ovarian Cancer is the eighth most common cancer found in women. Also, it ranks fifth when it comes to be a major of cause of cancer deaths. Lung and bronchus, breast, colorectal, and pancreatic cancers, are the only ones that cause more cancer deaths than ovarian cancer.
The University of Washington performed the study on 2,000 women. Its findings suggest that Women who have at least one cup of green tea intake in a day, have 54% less chances of the cancer formation. The National Institute of Environmental Medicine in Stockholm showed similar results. It was conducted on 61, 057 women, falling between the age group of 40 to 76 years of age.
The results show that women consuming two cups of black tea daily reduce the chances of ovarian cancer by 50%. It's the impact of Antioxidants found in tea that actually leads to preventing a critical illness like cancer. And earlier researches confirm that tea has many other health benefits too, besides being a good cancer preventing agent. Reducing risks of heart attacks, enhanced blood vessel function, better dental health are the major ones among others.
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