Can drinking tea everyday lower your risk of ovarian cancer? According to a new study from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, it can. Now there’s one more reason to get out the teapot and enjoy the many health benefits this popular beverage has to offer. This study looked at the tea drinking habits of 2,700 women living in Australian – half who had ovarian cancer and half of whom didn’t. They found that women who drank more than four cups of tea a day had a thirty percent lower ovarian cancer risk relative to women who weren’t tea drinkers. Although green tea has received the most focus in terms of cancer prevention, black and herbal teas were just as effective in this study. This isn’t the first study to show that drinking tea lowers the risk of ovarian cancer. A 2005 study found that drinking as little as two cups a day lowered ovarian cancer risk by forty-six percent. Tea may be the drink of choice when it comes to preventing ovarian cancer – the eighth most … [Read more...]