Black tea can prevent lung damage from smoking

james142

http://www.journal-inflammation.com/content/4/1/3

My question would be how adding milk would stop it from preventing lung damage..

Haelium

Adding milk might not effect it at all, but being scientific they would need to specify that it was black tea. Adding milk during experimentation would complicate matteres.

robman60

Pity they exposed the guinea pigs to that tbh...

Maybe they meant as opposed to green tea

Chuck Stone

That's racist.

Johro

I think what that article indicates is that antioxidants prevent lung damage.
If it's about antioxidants, I'd rather eat some grapes than drink black tea.

girl in the striped socks

Giving up smoking also prevents lung damage.
Just sayin

Esel

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

Giving up smoking also prevents lung damage.
Just sayin

So, if you didn't smoke, then took it up for a week, then gave it up, you would be guaranteed not to get lung cancer? Cool.

Johro

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

Giving up smoking also prevents lung damage.
Just sayin

Yeah the thought did cross my mind too.

I gave them up nearly two years ago, there's times I'd love a ciggie though.

girl in the striped socks

Esel wrote: »

So, if you didn't smoke, then took it up for a week, then gave it up, you would be guaranteed not to get lung cancer? Cool.

Note how I used the word prevent instead of guarantee.

NegativeCreep

I doubt it in fairness. Ever see those oul ones coughing and spluttering over a cup of tea with a fag in their hand? They're fucked.

Tin Foil Hat

Any way they can add the relevant ingredients to alcohol?

tuxy

james142 wrote: »

http://www.journal-inflammation.com/content/4/1/3

My question would be how adding milk would stop it from preventing lung damage..

Black tea is still black tea even if you add milk.
You know there are many types of tea right?

Johro

james142 wrote: »

http://www.journal-inflammation.com/content/4/1/3

My question would be how adding milk would stop it from preventing lung damage..

Adding milk affects the antioxidant properties of the black tea negatively, and milk is mucus-forming. Bet you're glad you know that
When you have a cold or flu you should stay away from milky drinks, they make sinus inflammation worse.

Wibbs

I'm running the human trials of this as we speak, given I drink 10 to 15 cups of majority black tea a day. Oh yes and to think I used to rip on coffee drinkers suggesting they were caffeine addicts. Thinking back I did wonder why the odd cup of espresso I was goaded into taking barely touched the sides...

Shryke

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I doubt it in fairness. Ever see those oul ones coughing and spluttering over a cup of tea with a fag in their hand? They're f[SIZE="2"]u[/SIZE]cked.

Um. They're old?

kowloon

Wibbs wrote: »

I'm running the human trials of this as we speak, given I drink 10 to 15 cups of majority black tea a day.

I'll put milk in mine and we can compare notes. Who wants first spot in the control group and who wants to drink homeopathic tea?

mikemac1

In conclusion, we demonstrate that there is a close link between oxidative damage, apoptosis and lung cellular damage in our guinea pig model exposed to cigarette smoke.

Brought to you by the University of the bleedin obvious

Pottler

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I doubt it in fairness. Ever see those oul ones coughing and spluttering over a cup of tea with a fag in their hand? They're fucked.

Oh, the ironing. I'll volenteer as a subject, I consist mostly of black tea and silk-cut at this stage. I occasionally break out with copious coffee and some alcohol, just to vary my diet.

the purple tin

Cigarettes do a hell of lot more than just lung damage. I can't see a simple cuppa cancalling out all the negative effects of the gaspers tbh.

The Snipe

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I doubt it in fairness. Ever see those oul ones coughing and spluttering over a cup of tea with a fag in their hand? They're fucked.

Ever wonder how they get to that age? I know a few people in their 80's/90's that smoke about 60 Rothmans or Superking Black a day!

NegativeCreep

Pottler wrote: »

Oh, the ironing. I'll volenteer as a subject, I consist mostly of black tea and silk-cut at this stage. I occasionally break out with copious coffee and some alcohol, just to vary my diet.

Why even,bother smoking silk cut? Marlboro red or rollies are where it's at.

biko

If you get cancer, just get DCA.

Pottler

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Why even,bother smoking silk cut? Marlboro red or rollies are where it's at.

Jacked in Marlboros and switched a few years ago. Can't tell the difference now and it cured the "can I get a smoke" brigade as they don't like them.:)

The amount of "non-smokers" who happily smoke other peoples is amazing and I have a personality disorder/hang-up/someone else can diagnose it - whereby I hate appearing stingy so usually hand one over. I get called a hard old cnut all the time, but never a stingy cnut, so I suppose it's the virtue I cling to:) I also hate milk in tea. My sig is my new answer though, cos the recession has the "non-smoker smokers" gone mad altogether and in fairness, they're feckin dear.