Green tea: nature’s defense against malignancies.
The review is intended to highlight the chemistry of green tea, its antioxidant potential, its immunopotentiating properties and mode of action against various cancer cell lines that showed its potential as a chemopreventive agent against colon, skin, lung, prostate, and breast cancer.
Review: green tea polyphenols in chemoprevention of prostate cancer: preclinical and clinical studies.
Green tea’s major constituent is epigallocatechin gallate.
Nutr Cancer. 2009 Nov;61(6):836-41.
Green tea (Camellia sinensis) for the prevention of cancer
Green tea contains catechins which are powerful antioxidants that may prevent cancer. This Cochrane review looked at 51 studies that included:
Drinking 3 to 5 cups of green tea per day is safe and provides 250 mg of catechins per day.
The author concludes that there is insufficient evidence for green tea consumption preventing cancer.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009 Jul 8;(3):CD005004.
Dietary factors and cancer chemoprevention: an overview of obesity-related malignancies.
“Currently, obesity-related malignancies, e.g., cancers of the breast, prostate and colon are the leading cancers in the industrialized societies.”
This review looks at cancer prevention studies in selected cancers associated with obesity:
And on foods that have anti-obesity and anti-cancer effects: