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The study of benefits from consuming tea, especially green tea, has been going for many years. Recent study has found significant results of consume up to 4 cups of green tea each day can help to increase your health and for women, it can helps providing protection against certain types of cancers, including breast cancer.

Green tea and its antioxidant EGCG (epigallocatechin-3-gallate) helps the body’s cells from becoming damaged and aging prematurely. The consumption of green tea leads to decreased blood levels of lipids, glucose and cholesterol. This means good news for dieters, and also those at risk for diabetes.

Green tea antioxidants have become an important part as one of the ingredients in anti wrinkle creams and moisturizers. When applied to the skin, antioxidants work to “clean up” the free radicals that cause wrinkling and sagging. They also increased your blood flow and supplied oxygen to your skin to keep its freshness and young looking.

Green tea’s antioxidant, however, has been studied as the anticancer on several indicators of breast cancer growth in laboratory mice. In the presentation of the study at the Experimental Biology 2008 conference, researcher Jian-Wei Gu, of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, says the green tea antioxidant may work against breast cancer by suppressing blood vessel growth in breast tumors as well as slowing the proliferation and migration of breast cancer cells.

In the study using female mices, one group was fed a solution of the antioxidant in water for five weeks while the other received regular drinking water. During the second week of the study, researchers injected both groups with breast cancer cells. And at the end of the study, researchers measured tumor size, weight, and density as well as VEGF protein levels associated with tumor growth.

Although the study has never been conducted to a living human, they have giving us hope to fight one of the most deadliest disease and I will surely starts to drink green tea from now, but remember don’t drink more than 10 cups per day