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PRESS' CUTTINGS and tatshave found.that the same protective qualities exist in black ta Britonsconsume more blaek. tes, thann any otherr na- tion.. with~. 170m cups being drunk mch day: We.dcanktea worth E599m la:se yeac att an avenge 3.3 cups a day. More than 30% ofNe population areregular cra.drinken. • lx cuppas a day keep cancer away SCIENTISTS have uncovered evidence thart drindting tea mayhelp rto pravent'canccr..A substancecontained in the laves of Britain's favourite drinkk is said to. reduce the spread of the disease by blbck- ing, the cancer-ousing..agents in the bloodstream. W7siJe therre have been many claims of tea:5 thera- peutic properties; doctors.in several centres ars for the Grst time anempting, toprove a specific effdet ProfbssorAllan Conney, director of the cancer research Ihbotatoryat Rutgers.Univer- sityih NewJersey, has been awarded a.E5.9m.grant to fur- tAerhis work on,the protec- The latest investigations toProfessor Gordon McVie. be ¢rried'out.on humans as sciendnc.director of the Can- well as atumals.were: iaspved cer Raeanch Campaiga is by. 5ndings in Japan that preparinga«viewg of pub- dtihking.gtcenaa popular in tished endence. - , This month Britain's big tea producers: mcluding Lyons Tedey aod Brooke Bond- launched a £Im research project which theyhopry will coufirm the evidence. Illtyd Lewi's, executive diPector of the TFa. Couecil, said full results from the pro> grammewould. nott be avaiR able until: . 1997: thetr tea aeat SUNDAY TIMES 24TH JULY 1994 by Ian ®urrell andLois Rogers tive effects ofteaf by the National [nstitutes of Health. Work by. Conney's team, re- ported thiss month in the jour- nal CancerResearch„showed thatt growthh of skinnncers artiftciallv induced in mice could be "markedly reduced" by feeding them tea in the ame concentrations dnunkbv humans- DnJohn Weistiurger..ditec- tor emeritusof the .lnterian Health Fousdation. says he is convincedlthatthe properties of tea bloekthc.spread~of caa- cers linked to diet. "It is my impression that if you < six cups of teaaday it protect'you against eencc He nas conducted a ser studless which have rav, that the risk to rat contracting cancer of breast, colon and panr from. cardnogeass coma found in cooked meats fish issignincandy rzdua tegular.dosesof tea. The protective effecu masked when milk,is add tea, or'if the leaflchemica alteredd at too high a, penture. Weisburger, wh 40 vears' experienre ta~e researeh. said: "People st Tea `prevents cancer' Com+nuedfrompagrl the. Far Fsst reduces therisk tzgntothiali.abourdrinxing, of colon nncen Since then further invesdgstions.tn mice