Groene thee helpt leven te verlengen

[MeDieViL]

ff een hele boel nieuws aant posten, wanneer krijg ik die officiele nieuws poster status bigT?

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A study of more than 40,000 men and women in Japan has found that those who drink a lot of green tea live longer, researchers said on Tuesday.
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The investigation by Dr. Shinichi Kuriyama and colleagues at the Tohoku University School of Public Policy, Sendai, Japan, found the beverage was particularly effective in fighting heart disease but did not reduce the death rate due to cancer, as some earlier animal studies had suggested.

Polyphenols -- plant compounds known to be antioxidants -- found in green tea may explain the life prolonging benefit it confers, said the study published in this week's
Journal of the American Medical Association.

The 11-year study was conducted in northeastern Japan, a region where 80 percent of the population drinks green tea and more than half drink three or more cups daily.

Those involved in the study ranged in age from 40 to 79 and had no history of stroke, heart disease or cancer when the study began in 1994.

Those who drank five or more cups of green tea a day had a death rate overall and from heart disease in particular that was 16 percent lower than those who drank less than one cup daily, over the course of 11 years.

Over the first seven years of the study the death rate of the heavy tea drinkers was 26 percent lower.

Where heart disease was concerned the effect was stronger among women than men in the study, perhaps because men were more likely to be cigarette smokers, the authors reported.

Tea of all kinds is the most consumed beverage in the world aside from water, while heart disease and cancer are the two leading causes of death worldwide.

The authors said the apparent protective effect found was not likely to be the result of tea drinkers in the study somehow being more health conscious, since almost all Japanese consume green tea as one of their favorite beverages regardless of their other health habits.

The study was paid for by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.

Green tea shown to prolong life in Japanese study - Yahoo! News

[yankeefive]

Lijkt me onzin, zeker omdat dit soort beweringen niet te controleren zijn. Net zoals het "feit" dat normale rokers minder lang leven (kettingrokers is wat anders)

[Rhino210]

Haha en dan kom je na 50 jaar intensief groenethee drinken achter dat het niet zo is. Echt %#@!!#!!!

[hardcorebuilder]

het klopt wel
want ik leef nog steeds!

[sport wonder]

Ik drink altijd thee en vanwege de positieve eigenschappen in de avond vrijwel altijd een potje groene thee. Hopelijk hebben deze onderzoekers het dan ook bij het rechte eind

Kun je nagaan als je iedere dag een paar appeltjes eet en groene thee drinkt (diegene die dit subform een beetje volgen weten hoe en wat )

[boerenkool]

Groene thee limerick:
Een potige kerel uit Bombay
Dronk daaglijks een pot groene thee
"Elke dag een goeie start
en het is goed voor m'n hart
Ja groene thee dat is echt okee!"

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