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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Living here, I keep hearing the claims about the cancer-fighting anti-oxidants found in green tea. But then I think about the stomach x-ray all Japanese public employees are required to take every year... a glass of barium to coat the stomach and a series of x-rays from all angles...
The Japanese have one of the highest rates of stomach cancer per capita in world.
I don't think the green tea is working...
Stitchawl
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Why do Japanese public employees have to get stomach x-rays each year?
There have been medical studies done that show that people who drink 8-16 ounces (I can't remember which but I think 16 ounces because I am remembering 2 cups) of green tea a day have a decreased risk of developing cancer. The studies I read about most recently have been conducted in the US and UK so they would not have the same possibility of lifestyle differences between Japan and China and the US being the real difference.
Given that both my grandmothers had breast cancer, one grandfather died of lung cancer (Russian immigrant, smoked a ton), and my mother is in her third year fighting lung cancer (So far so good) I am gonna gain whatever edge I can. So tea is a great thing. It tastes good and it might, I get that it is a might, help diminish my risk of developing some nasty cancers.
I worked at a survey research lab, yes I was one of the annoying people calling you to condict political and social polls, for 8 years. One project we worked on was recruiting Polish women who had moved to the US in the last 10 years. Apparently the breast cancer rate in Poland is drasticlly smaller then in the US. What initial research had found was that the rate of breast cancer in Polish immigrants to the US matched the US rate of breast cancer in 10 years time. The reason for the research was to track Polish women and see how their lifestyle changed and try and determine what differences between Poland and the US might explain the difference in breast cancer rates.