Tea and Your Health
Windsor, CT, December 16, 2005 – We are pleased to announce a new research study that indicates women who consume two or more cups of tea per day, over a period of time, may reduce their risk of ovarian cancer by 46%. Also, each additional cup of tea consumed per day was associated with an 18% lower risk of ovarian cancer. This epidemiological study is comprehensive in showing a significant association between increased tea consumption and reduced risk of ovarian cancer.

Published in the December issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine was a population-based study known as the Swedish Mammography Cohort. The study was conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental medicine in Stockholm, Sweden. The researchers studied the relationship between tea consumption and the risk of ovarian cancer in 61,057 women, between the ages of 40 and 76 year of age. Between 1987 and 1990 participants were sent an invitation to enroll in the study as well as a 67-item food frequency questionnaire to be completed (68% of the women reported drinking tea at least once a month.). Following enrollment, the women became involved in a 15-year follow-up period, during which 301 women were diagnosed as having epithelial ovarian cancer. The researchers observed that a consumption level of 2 cups of tea per day was significantly inversely associated with risk of cancer. These women had a 46% lower risk of ovarian cancer then women who either rarely drank tea, or drank no tea at all. In order to confirm these findings more research should be conducted.

This is yet another significant finding that contributes to the belief that tea is a part of a healthy diet.