{"id":218815,"date":"2010-01-21T22:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/can-drinking-green-tea-protect-against-lung-cancer\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T22:01:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T03:01:23","slug":"can-drinking-green-tea-protect-against-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218815","title":{"rendered":"Can Drinking Green Tea Protect Against Lung Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Woman+Drinking_1961_19556548_0_0_7038725_300.jpg\" alt=\"Can drinking green tea protect against lung cancer?\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Consuming green tea may lower the risk of developing lung cancer among smokers and non-smokers alike, a new study has concluded. <\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Chung Shan Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan, found that respondents who drank at least one cup of green tea per day had a five-fold lower risk of developing lung cancer than those who did not. <\/p>\n<p>Among smokers, participants who consumed a minimum of one cup of green tea every day had a 13-fold lower risk than those who drank no tea. <\/p>\n<p>The team also found that the antioxidants in the beverage had a greater therapeutic effect on people with specific growth factor genotypes.<\/p>\n<p>While the results of the study suggest the potential health benefits associated with green tea, doctors warn that it is not a substitute for quitting smoking. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;People will look at this and think, &#8216;Oh, well, I can smoke as long as I have a few cups of green tea&#8217;,&quot; said Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association, quoted by <em>News Day<\/em>. &quot;Nothing could be further from the truth.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The most important thing here is that we don&#8217;t want anyone to get the message that it&#8217;s okay to smoke so long as I drink green tea,&quot; he added. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19556548-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19556548\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consuming green tea may lower the risk of developing lung cancer among smokers and non-smokers alike, a new study has concluded. Researchers from the Chung Shan Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan, found that respondents who drank at least one cup of green tea per day had a five-fold lower risk of developing lung cancer than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}