Interestingly, if you go to the main wiki page on tea, it lists many benefits, including “significant protective effects of green tea against oral, pharyngeal, oesophageal, prostate, digestive, urinary tract, pancreatic, bladder, skin, lung, colon, breast, and liver cancers, and lower risk for cancer metastasis and recurrence.”
However, looking at the studies cited shows the ones they cite are in animals or in vitro.
If you look on the main page of Health effects of Tea, it says the FDA and Nation Cancer Institute say there are most likely no effects to reduce cancer, and the page doesn’t list any other major benefits. There are also many drawbacks listed on that page.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tea)
But, the FDA announcement they cite was in 2005, and I don’t know if there have been major important studies since then.
A quick google scholar search doesn’t appear to show studies in humans, though I didn’t do a detailed enough search to say anything conclusive.
Bottom line, I’m not sure if tea is better, or even beneficial at all.
I think a better search would’ve helped. For example, doing a date limit to 2007 or so and searching tea human longevity OR lifespan OR mortality pulls up 2 correlational studies (what, you were expecting large RCTs? dream on). You could probably get even better results doing a human-limited search on Pubmed.
Have you considered tea? Seems to be cheaper and the health benefits seem equal or superior in my very casual overviews of the topic.
Green tea is hugely beneficial in that your coworkers are less likely to nick it.
Interestingly, if you go to the main wiki page on tea, it lists many benefits, including “significant protective effects of green tea against oral, pharyngeal, oesophageal, prostate, digestive, urinary tract, pancreatic, bladder, skin, lung, colon, breast, and liver cancers, and lower risk for cancer metastasis and recurrence.”
However, looking at the studies cited shows the ones they cite are in animals or in vitro.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea#Health_effects)
If you look on the main page of Health effects of Tea, it says the FDA and Nation Cancer Institute say there are most likely no effects to reduce cancer, and the page doesn’t list any other major benefits. There are also many drawbacks listed on that page. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tea)
But, the FDA announcement they cite was in 2005, and I don’t know if there have been major important studies since then.
A quick google scholar search doesn’t appear to show studies in humans, though I didn’t do a detailed enough search to say anything conclusive.
Bottom line, I’m not sure if tea is better, or even beneficial at all.
I think a better search would’ve helped. For example, doing a date limit to 2007 or so and searching
tea human longevity OR lifespan OR mortalitypulls up 2 correlational studies (what, you were expecting large RCTs? dream on). You could probably get even better results doing a human-limited search on Pubmed.Ahem.
(Mediocre, but it took me two minutes. I’m satisfied.)