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Vegetarian Times, Jan, 2004

Researchers at the University of Rochester have found how chemicals in green tea, considered close molecular cousins to cancer-fighting substances in broccoli, cabbage and red wine, inhibit tobacco's ability to cause cancel: Published in the July 21, 2003 Chemical Research in Toxicology, the study shows that two antioxidants in green tea shut down a molecule called aryl hydrocarbon that helps activate harmful proteins, "thus wreaking havoc within the cell" www.cancerfacts.com reports.

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The finding helps to explain why people who drink green tea reduce d3eir risks of cancer; in time, the knowledge may be applied to fighting cancer in other ways.

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Vegetarian Times, Jan, 2004

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