Besides tea, coffee is the most preferred beverage that enjoyed all around the world. Questions always arise, whether coffee is good or bad for health. Actually, like any other food and drink, if not in excessive dosage, coffee can be good for health. Drinking an adequate cups of coffee a day can help reduce the risk of certain kind of cancers.
We all know that the most effective way of avoid cancer is by applying healthy lifestyle. However, many research has been conducted to investigate the effects of coffee in preventing cancer. Although many scientists can concluded that coffee really reducing the risk of cancer, they can’t be certain in what compound inside coffee cause this. They only sure that there are some amounts of antioxidant inside coffee.
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, recently published that coffee can prevent head and neck cancer. According to their research, participants who were regular coffee drinkers, that is, those who drank an estimated four or more cups a day, compared with those who were non-drinkers, had a 39 percent decreased risk of oral cavity and pharynx cancers combined.
“Since coffee is so widely used and there is a relatively high incidence and low survival rate of these forms of cancers, our results have important public health implications that need to be further addressed,” said lead researcher Mia Hashibe, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of family and preventive medicine at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator.
This isn’t the first study to suggest that coffee has an anticancer effect.
Last December, Harvard University researchers presented data showing that coffee consumption lowers the risk of prostate cancer. Men who drank the most coffee were 60 percent less likely to get an aggressive form of the disease than men who didn’t drink coffee.
And English researchers recently published a study that found that brain tumors were less common in people who drank at least five cups of coffee or tea a day.
Does light or moderate coffee consumption lower the risk of head and neck cancer? “We didn’t see a clear association for the moderate drinkers,” Hashibe told Aol Health. “But coffee is a really complex set of chemicals. I wouldn’t recommend that everybody drink that much coffee.”
Bad Effects of Coffee
Other studies have concluded that coffee does not seem to have long-term negative health effects as long as the serving sizes remain small (i.e., less than 500mg/day). However, there is the risk of becoming dependent on coffee which can lead to deficiencies in other important vitamins and minerals, most notably, calcium.
Coffee also usually associated with heavy smoker and alcohol drinker, that’s why some of them have a very bad health, not because of the coffee itself, but because of unhealthy lifestyle.
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