Question:

Can tea provide the same antioxidants as vitamins?

Vitamin E and Heart Disease

Antioxidants have been proven to reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease among other illnesses. Vitamin E is rich in antioxidants. Studies on vitamin E show a 40% reduction in risk of cardiovascular disease in both women and men who had high intakes of vitamin E (mostly from supplements).

Further Research into Green Tea as an HIV drug?

Further research into the potential preventative effects of the green tea catechin EGCG on HIV infection is being conducted by researchers at the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and the Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England.

The study may offer a new perspective for the treatment of the life-threatening HIV disease and HIV prevention.

Researchers do not suggest the use of green tea to counter HIV infection or as an alternative therapy to current anti-viral agents now used.

The concentrations of EGCG in green tea in laboratory studies are many times over the blood concentration that could be achieved by normal green tea consumption. However, the current findings call for additional research into the clinical application of green tea catechin as an anti-HIV drug.

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Sleep is Very Important

We all know that sleep is important, but why?

Research studies have found that it is quite clear that insufficient rest can result in illness or even an increased rate of cancer and diabetes. Good sleeping patterns can slow down the aging process, reduce your stress levels, balance your hormone levels, and repair damaged cells.

A disrupted sleep rhythm may influence cancer progression through shifts in hormones like melatonin, which the brain makes during sleep.

Irregular sleeping and waking patterns due to stress or other issues may promote cancer growth.

Therefore, be sure to get your proper rest each night to help boost your immune system so your body can repair damaged cells, such as cancer cells.

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Sleep Can Prevent Cancer

We all know we need at least 6-8 hours of sleep nightly. Have you ever wondered why sleep is so important? How can sleep help cancer prevention?

High blood levels of the hormone melatonin may explain why blind women have significantly lowered risks for breast cancer compared with sighted women.

Melatonin, which is secreted by the pineal gland in the brain and plays an important role in the body's sleep cycle, is thought to influence the secretion of estrogen, which in turn influences breast cancer risk.

The investigators found that totally blind women had a 36% lower risk of breast cancer compared with sighted women. Women who became blind relatively early in life (before age 65) appeared to be especially protected against breast cancer, with incidence rates 49% below those of sighted women.

Only total blindness -- not visual impairment -- seemed to protect against breast cancer. According to the authors, this supports the theory that increased nighttime exposure to artificial light reduces melatonin levels, altering estrogen secretion rates and upping risks for breast cancer.

Blind women are by definition unreceptive to light, however, and may maintain high melatonin production at night regardless of external light conditions. Kliukiene's team believe this may be the mechanism whereby blind women are protected from breast cancer.

This information was provided by: British Journal of Cancer March 2001;84:397-399