You probably know by now that drinking green tea is good for you. The Japanese are some of the longest-living people on the planet, and 80% of them drink green tea every single day. Green tea has been shown to help prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease. This is largely thanks to its polyphenols and antioxidants, which reduce inflammation and oxidation. But new research indicates that cancer and cardiovascular disease aren't the only causes of death that you can be less worried about if you drink green tea regularly. There's another silent killer that green tea may be protecting you from — one you probably haven't ever thought about before. 

One of the very real problems that oncologists have when treating patients with chemotherapy is something called multi-drug resistance. That means that, even though at first the cancer cells are killed by the drugs, after a while they become immune to them. This happens in many cancers. And it's due to several different proteins that cancers make that leap to multi-drug resistance. Now a new study is showing that at least in breast cancers there might be a very simple and safe way to stop cancers from making these proteins. If true, this would lead to much better results especially in patients with metastatic cancers. 

As more research sheds light on the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, you may have heard the quip "sitting is the new smoking." While I don't think sitting for hours at a time is quite as harmful as pulling known carcinogens directly into your lungs, I'm glad that our insufficient activity levels are starting to get some attention. And some solutions. I'm particularly glad to see that some of these solutions are targeting children, setting them on the path for good health for life. But don't let these results fool you. They're just as applicable for adults.