The Skinny Kid

The Tao of Health: Lung Cancer and Green Tea

This article says that drinking green tea may reduce your risk of getting lung cancer. I drink green tea, but I don’t think I could do five cups a day like the article suggests.

Well, it could be worse. To ward off lung cancer one would think you’d have to inhale it.

Start Eating Green For Your Health This St. Patrick’s Day

In addition to the regular festivities surrounding St. Patrick’s Day this month, consider adding a new tradition more green foods to your diet.”Green foods across the board are healthy in terms of their vitamin, mineral, water and antioxidant content, and St Patrick’s Day is the perfect time to think about how you can incorporate more of them into your diet,” says Erica Wald, RD, a wellness coordinator with the MFit Health Promotion Division at the University of Michigan Health System.

The key, she says, is variety.

“You want to incorporate lots of different intensities of green all the various colors of green,” she says. “The more varied the colors, the more varied your vitamin and mineral intake.”

A novel idea - and it’s got to be better than the green beer.

Green Tea And COX-2 Inhibitors Combine To Slow Growth Of Prostate Cancer

In the March 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, researchers from University of Wisconsin-Madison demonstrate that low doses of the COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib, administered with a green tea polyphenol called pigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), can slow the growth of human prostate cancer. Their experiments were performed in cell cultures and in a mouse model for the disease.

Interesting look at alternative/nutritional solutions alongside pharmaceuticals.