Tea Antioxidants Found to Reduce the Risk of Skin Cancer

Skin cancer risk was observed to be less in those who take regular tea by researchers. EGCG, a tea oxidant is shown to reduce burning on ultraviolet exposed skin. However it is also found that those who have already had skin burns in the past, did not have the lower risk of skin cancer.

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But it doesn’t mean that one can go and expose to sun all the time. Extreme exposures are not covered. The tea antioxidant might be just limiting the skin damage caused by moderate exposure and not extreme exposures.

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Chocolates Can Save Us from Cancer, Heart Disease and Strokes

Recent study says that a particular chemical compound called Epicatechin found in cocoa beans is as important to medicine as penicillin or anesthesia. Even when people become prone to attack and they take cocoa they are less likely to die.

It is said that the chemical compound Epicatechin improves health by relaxing blood vessels and improving circulation. Also one suffering from dementia, impotence, and pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening complication of pregnancy, can benefit from these cocoa chocolates.

In a previous blog I had written about the same cocoa benefiting memory.

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