Coffee Vs Cancer

The second topic of the series on Coffee is Caner.

A study done by the Japan's National Cancer Center has shown that drinking coffee can prevent Liver Cancer. The study was conducted on 90,000 people in japan over a span of 10 years. Result of the study has shown that coffee drinkers have half the risk of getting liver cancer compared to non drinkers. However, scientist could not identify the substance which prevents liver cancer. They only evaluated that coffee contains certain antioxidants which have this properties. A comparison was done with tea but the scientist did not see a significant link with tea and liver cancer prevention.

The traditional way of making coffee in Singapore has shown to prevent development of advanced colorectal cancer. Singapore Chinese makes coffee by boiling and sieving ground coffee beans with a muslin cloth filter.In this way, the cloth retains chemoprotectants such as cafestil and kahweol which may protect frequent coffee drinkers against the development of advanced colorectal cancer.

Coffee has been proven to be of help to other type of cancers such as Throat, Breast, Stomach Cancer etc. However, do not over consume coffee because it might cause other complications.

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