Tea Leaves script

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CANCER FIGHTING TEA LEAVES (running time 1:41)

SUGGESTED INTRO: RESEARCHERS AT CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ARE BREWING A LOT OF TEA LATELY, BUT NOT BECAUSE THEY'RE THIRSTY. THEY'VE FOUND CANCER FIGHTING COMPOUNDS IN GREEN TEA, A POPULAR BEVERAGE IN JAPAN AND OTHER ASIAN COUNTRIES. MORE IN THIS REPORT:

VOICEOVER: RESEARCHERS AT CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ARE BREWING LARGE AMOUNTS OF GREEN TEA. NOT BECAUSE THEY LIKE TO DRINK IT AS MUCH AS FOR WHAT IT CONTAINS. A CANCER-INHIBITING COMPOUND CALLED E-G-C-G. THE CANCER FIGHTING PROPERTIES OF E-G-C-G ARE CALLED POLYPHENOLS. HASAN MUKHTAR AND FELLOW RESEARCHERS AT CASE WESTERN RESERVE HAVE FOUND FIVE MAJOR POLYPHENOLIC COMPOUNDS IN GREEN TEA THAT INHIBIT THE GROWTH OF TUMORS IN LABORATORY MICE.

SOT & SUGGESTED SUPER:

HASAN MUKHTAR

MEDICAL RESEARCHER,

CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY

(OUTCUE: "... less lung and stomach cancers.") ( :21)

VOICEOVER: CASE WESTERN RESERVE RESEARCHERS ARE ISOLATING THE KEY COMPONENTS OF GREEN TEA TO LEARN WHETHER ONE CHEMICAL ALONE, OR A MIXTURE OF SEVERAL POLYPHENOLS, BEST INHIBITS CANCER TUMOR GROWTH. THE SHIZUOKA PREFECTURE, A PROVINCE OF JAPAN, HAS A LOWER INCIDENCE OF STOMACH CANCER THAN ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY. JAPANESE AND CHINESE STUDIES LINKED THE LOWER RATE OF CANCER TO THE HIGHER CONSUMPTION OF GREEN TEA. AS A RESULT OF THE PERCEIVED BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA POLYPHENOLS, MANY JAPANESE PRODUCTS SUCH AS GUM, CANDY, AND OTHER FOOD AND BEVERAGES NOW CONTAIN A GREEN TEA EXTRACT CALLED SUNPHENON. ALTHOUGH GREEN TEA SUPPLEMENTS HAVEN'T MADE THEIR WAY INTO AMERICAN FOODS, HASAN MUKHTAR BELIEVES THEY MAY SOMEDAY BE PART OF A CANCER PREVENTIVE DIET.

THIS IS DAVE NAROSNY REPORTING FROM CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY, CLEVELAND.

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