That cup of tea may save you from skin cancer

It looks like drinking tea daily and on a regular basis lowers a person's risk for the two most common forms of skin cancer: squamous cell and basal cell carcinoma. The risk was lowered by as much as 20-30% for regular tea drinkers, and by even more for those who had been in the habit for many years (so my mom, who's had a cup of tea every morning for as long as I can remember, has the right idea!).

What the study did not look at, however, was the connection between drinking tea and the risk for developing the rarest but most deadly form of skin cancer: melanoma. But I think it's safe to say that drinking tea definitely won't hurt your risk of getting melanoma, even if by chance it doesn't help it much either.