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Drinking too much tea can cause prostate cancer: Study

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Press Trust of India London

The warning comes from University of Glasgow researchers who tracked more than 6,000 men for four decades and found that those who drank seven or more cups of tea daily had a 50 per cent higher risk of contracting the disease than men who took three or fewer.

Their findings, published in the journal Nutrition and Cancer, counter the previous research, which have suggested that tea-drinking lowers the risk of cancer, as well as heart disease, diabetes and Parkinson

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First Published: Jun 19 2012 | 4:36 PM IST

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