A recent study promotes newly discovered coffee drinking benefits. It seems, heavy coffee drinkers are less at risk of dying from cancers of the mouth and throat by nearly half.
The research found that the risk of dying from oral and pharyngeal cancers was 50 percent lower in people who reported drinking more than four cups of caffeinated coffee per day, than in those who never drank coffee, or did it only occasionally. Coffee contains many antioxidants and other compounds that may stop or slow the developing and progression of cancer cells.
The study was published online in the American Journal of Epidemiology and was conducted by scientists form the American Cancer Society. Janet Hildebrand, MPH, and her crew examined coffee drinking habits in nearly one million men and women, enrolled in the Cancer Prevention Study II from 1982. At the beginning of the study all participants were free of cancer, but during the 26-year study period 868 death cases from oral and throat cancers were registered. Almost everyone drank either coffee or tea – more than 97%. More than 60% reported having at least one cup of coffee a day, and most of these people had three cups a day.
The risk of dying from the two kinds of cancer was 49% lower in people who consumed more than four cups of coffee a day compared to those who had it only from time to time, or not at all. Participants who drank more than five or six cups a day had similar rates. There was only a slight suggestion of a link between those who drank more than two cups of decaf daily, and no suggestion for a benefit for tea drinkers.
Three cups of coffee daily could prevent Alzheimer. There are a lot of other benefits that haven’t been yet proved, but it is known that coffee includes many biologically active compounds. Scientists are not sure if coffee lowered the risk of getting cancer, or rather helped surviving once the cancer occurred. This is mainly because the study looked at the deaths, and not the diagnoses. So scientists can not recommend drinking more coffee for oral nag pharynx prevention, not until further clinical evidence is found.
