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Green tea warning to pregnant women

23rd March 2005 Researchers have warned that drinking green tea in pregnancy increases the risk of the risk of neural birth defects such as spina bifida. It is thought that one of the that one of the tea’s active ingredients, a naturally occurring polyphenol called EGCG, disables an enzyme, DHFR which is essential for making DNA and is also…

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