Thursday, October 27, 2011

Coffee and Cancer


Today’s interesting fact has to do with the coffee and cancer.

A recent study of 72,921 participants has shown that women who consumed more than three cups of coffee per day had a 20 percent reduction in risk for basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and men who consumed more than three cups per day had a nine percent risk reduction compared with people who consumed less than one cup per month.

It has been suggested that coffee might increase squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) or melanoma  e.g.skin cancers but they did not find any inverse association between coffee consumption and the risk for skin cancers.

So another coffee myth dispelled, it's good for us.

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