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Using Green Tea to Help Prevent Cancer and Treat Cancer

Tea consumption is associated with a reduced risk of heart disease, stroke, and premature death in general, with each additional cup of green tea a day associated with a 4-percent lower mortality risk. So, perhaps “ drinking several cups of tea daily can keep the doctor away,” as well as the mortician—but what about cancer? As I discuss in my video Can Green Tea Help Prevent Cancer , there is “growing evidence from laboratory, epidemiologic [population], and human intervention studies that tea can exert beneficial disease-preventive effects” and, further, may actually “slow cancer progression.” Let’s review some of that evidence. Not only do those who drink a lot of tea appear to live longer than those who drink less, as you can see at 0:49 in my video , drinking lots of tea may also delay the onset of cancer. At 0:56 in my video , you can see a table titled “Average age at cancer onset and daily green tea consumption.” The green tea intake is measured in Japanese tea cups, w...

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: EXERCISE BATTLING THE DEADLY CYTOKINE STORM

On April 27, in my article entitled Coronavirus Pandemic: Diet and Nutrition – Battling the Deadly Cytokine Storm (musculardevelopment.com) I reported on the anti-inflammatory Mediterranean diet and how it may lower inflammation and tame down the cytokine storm. For many years, I was a member of the American Oil Chemical Society, an organization led by researchers from around the world studying the role of fats and oils in our diet. In the ‘80s early, epidemiology found that the “Greenland Eskimos who live on a traditional marine rich diet in long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids have a low incidents of cardiovascular disease and myocardial infarction (Nature, 1984).” Arachidonic acid is an inflammatory polyunsaturated fatty acid and is replaced in platelets and cell membranes with the anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids from a high fish and fish oil diet. The high omega-3 fatty acid in the diet inhibited a clotting a prostaglandin called thromboxane A2 in blood platelets...

Does Aspartame Cause Lymphoma?

The approval of aspartame has a controversial history. The Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concluded that “there is a reasonable certainty that human consumption of aspartame: (1) …will not pose a risk of brain damage resulting in mental retardation, endocrine [hormonal] dysfunction, or both; and (2) will not cause brain tumors.” However, the FDA’s own Public Board of Inquiry withdrew their approval over cancer concerns. “Further, several FDA scientists advised against the approval of aspartame, citing…[the aspartame company’s] own brain tumor tests…” Regardless, the Commissioner approved aspartame before he left the FDA and went on to enjoy a thousand-dollar-a-day consultancy position with the aspartame company’s PR firm. Then, the FDA actually prevented the National Toxicology Program (NTP) from doing further cancer testing. As I discuss in my video Does Aspartame Cause Cancer? we were then left with people battling over different rodent studies, some of...