Japanese Researchers who followed more than 40,000 adults found that drinking green tea was associated with a lower death rate from cardiovascular disease, but not from cancer. The study is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. During the seven years volunteers were followed, those who drank five or more cups of green tea per day were 26 percent less likely to die of cardiovascular disease than those who drank less than one cup per day. The link was statistically stronger for reducing deaths from stroke than from heart attacks. In addition, the heavy tea drinkers were 16 percent less likely to die from all causes than those who drank little or no tea during 11 years of followup. Researchers found no decrease in cancer deaths among tea drinkers.
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