another great article on the benefits of green tea

Anti-Cancer Mechanism of Green Tea Revealed

I remember years ago, I was having a conversation with an individual after work in Utah one day regarding Green Tea.  This older man informed me  tea was bad for my health and I should avoid drinking it.  As i sat there listening one thing was going through my head, "this guy is sitting here telling me my green tea is bad for me yet he is sucking down a diet mountain dew (chuck full of chemicals made by the same company that makes Agent Orange) and is also obese."   

I have not read a singe credible medical study stating green tea was bad for me, or any form of tea for that matter.  In asia it has been consumed for centuries and well, look at how more healthy they are than us.....enough said.         

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Lactate dehydrogenase A (LDHA) is an enzyme that is elevated in several human cancers, including pancreatic cancer. Wai-Nang Lee, MD, from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed; California, USA), and colleagues observe that epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), the active biologic constituent in green tea, changes the metabolism of pancreatic cancer cells by suppressing LDHA expression. The researchers also found an enzyme inhibitor, oxamate, which is known to reduce LDHA activity, operated in the same manner: It also disrupted the pancreatic cancer cells metabolic system. The study authors submit that: “These results suggest that phytochemical [epigallocatechin gallate] and LDHA inhibitor oxamate confer their anti-cancer activities by disrupting the balance of flux throughout the cellular metabolic network.”