The last 15 years have seen a remarkable change in the clinical considerations of coffee.
Studies examining the caffeinated beverage for its potential effects on several different biological systems, from the kidneys to mood, have classified it as a health drink.
Now, research from the University of Utah published in the journal Cancer has shown that people who drink 4 cups of caffeinated coffee per day have a lower risk of developing head and neck cancer. neck.
THE seventh most common A form of cancer worldwide, head and neck cancer had a mortality rate of almost 50% among 750,000 patients in 2020 – the last year that global data on head and neck cancer was available. collected.
The Utah team looked at 14 older studies covering about 9,500 head and neck cancer patients and nearly 16,000 people without cancer to see how diagnosis rates stacked up when consumption of patients’ coffee was taken into account.
People who drank more than 4 cups a day “had an overall 17% lower risk of head and neck cancer, 30% lower risk of oral cavity cancer, and 22% lower risk to have throat cancer.
A 2016 meta-analysis find that coffee consumption was linked to a reduced risk of oral, pharyngeal, liver, colon, prostate, endometrial and melanoma cancers, but an increased risk of lung cancer, while ‘a separate article from the same year showed a dose-dependent reduction in the risk of colorectal cancer.
COFFEE AS A REMEDY:
In the broadest and least scientific language, plants that contain strongly flavored chemical compounds, such as cinnamon, ginger, garlic, turmeric, cloves or tea, generally prove to be powerful promoters of well-being.
This trend may be extending to coffee.
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