Coffee and tea phenols might cut the risk of stroke in men who smoke a study out of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, suggests.
22,556 adult Finnish male smokers were observed over a period of 13.6 years. Researchers studied the data connecting tea and coffee consumption and the risk of 3 different kinds of [...]
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Researchers at the Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch, Germany, have found that green tea may prevent the formation of deadly plaque in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. In a laboratory study, the team discovered that the epigallocatechin-3-gallate, or EGCG, found in green tea impedes the accumulation of toxic protein aggregates associated with [...]
Filed under: Alzheimer's, parkinson's disease, science news, tea on June 12th, 2008 | No Comments »
