Teas can help to treat and prevent colon cancer

Teas are the most widely consumed beverages in the world. These have a lot of health benefits due to its high concentration of antioxidants such as polyphenols.

Polyphenols are chemical substances that are found in plants especially tea leaves. Also widely known as Vitamin P, these may reduce the risk of some type of cancers, especially colon cancer, and also cardiovascular diseases. Other sources of these compounds are berries, beer, olive oil, chocolate, pomegranates, peanuts, walnuts. Other vegetables and fruits also possess these compounds, with large concentration of these found on the skin.

According to a study conducted in Japan, drinking three cups of tea has a lot of health benefit to a person’s body. Tea contains catechins which is a type of antioxidants. White and green tea has the highest level of this. White tea is the most little processed of all that is why it has the greatest concentration of catechins among other kinds of tea leaves.

Black teas have the lowest level of catechins due to its oxidative preparation. A new study funded by the National Cancer Institute revealed that drinking green or white teas could be a good combination to colon cancer drugs, making it more effective in treating the disease.

Polyphenols and other antioxidants found in teas have good interaction with cancer drugs, making it more potent in stopping the spread of cancer cells and polyps. Colon cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths worldwide. And so the study on tea leaves and its cancer-fighting compounds will be beneficial to a lot of people.

The reason why colon cancer is hard to detect is that this has no symptoms in the beginning. When the person is almost in the middle or in the last stage of cancer that is the only time when the body will signal that polyp cancer has already spread in the colon. Diarrhea, change in bowel, anemia, abdominal pain, blood in the stool, and weight loss are just some of the symptoms of colon cancer.

There are many food supplements and herbal medicine that promise to have a cleansing effect on a person’s whole system, especially the digestive tract and colon. But before taking any of those "wonder" medicine, always be reminded with its packages saying "No approved therapeutic claim." This means that doctor’s advice is still the best option to make.