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If you needed another reason to drink green tea, here’s one: Japanese women who regularly drink five or more cups a day are 20 percent less likely to have stomach cancer.

A team of researchers studied the use of green tea for cancer prevention because he suspected that antioxidants protect the infusion of the fatal disease, especially because it would include substances that attack bacteria associated with stomach tumors.

But previous studies did not obtain conclusive results, they wrote in the journal Gut. To better understand the real effects of green tea, Dr. M. Inoue, National Cancer Center in Tokyo, and colleagues reviewed six of those previous works.

Together, the research included more than 219,000 men and women 40 years and older, who were followed over seven to 11 years. Four out of five respondents said they drank green tea daily; third drank five or more cups per day. Read the rest of this entry »