Coffee 'cuts prostate cancer risk' US study suggests

[Sherman A1]

Something with which to start the day!!!!


"Coffee has been linked to a reduced risk of dying from prostate cancer in a study of nearly 50,000 US men.

Those who drank six or more cups a day were found to be 20% less likely to develop any form of the disease - which is the most common cancer in men.

They were also 60% less likely to develop an aggressive form which can spread to other parts of the body."

More at link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13430219

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[Scuba]

1. Good news (at least for me), but be careful with statistics...

...100% of men will develop prostrate cancer if they live long enough.

Still, delaying the onset and minimizing the aggressiveness of prostrate cancer are both welcome.

[Sherman A1]

3. Agreed

And 100% of all of us will die assuming we live long enough (or something like that).

Off to get a refill!:donut:

[Canuckistanian]

2. That wasn't Frank Zappa's experience

Frank never drank alcohol or took drugs, but he drank massive amounts of black coffee.

He died of prostate cancer.

[notesdev]

7. He also chain smoked his entire adult life

mighta had a little to do with it

[Johnyawl]

22. The study DID NOT say it prevents cancer...

...it said it cuts the risk. That means some heavy coffee drinkers are still going to get prostate cancer, other factors being equal.

Geez, people, read the damn material.

[Kolesar]

4. Lather. Rinse. Repeat

Makes sense

[xchrom]

5. Peets French roast! My Elixir! Nt

[customerserviceguy]

9. Yes!

Drinking a cup of it right now. It's even better than the very expensive coffee I was getting from Whole Foods.

[Sherman A1]

15. Think of it as

Nectar of the Bean!

[notesdev]

6. Sweet!

I must be a walking cure for cancer then

[HereSince1628]

8. 6 cups a day...I wonder if they considered frequency of urination

as part of prostate cancer protecting habits?

[themadstork]

10. Six cups?

Damn .. . I like coffee (having some now), but six cups a day? I'd exist solely on the crapper.

[mfcorey1]

11. Next week there will be a new study that says it causes hangnails.

[RegieRocker]

12. Yea sure it does! Lol

[Javaman]

13. But you will be so jittery that people will refer to you as "The Blur".nt

[Sherman A1]

14. Don't know about that I usually go through about 6 -12 cups

each day and don't have any problem with jitters, but everyone is different.

[KittyWampus]

16. Oh please, the harm coffee does on our bodies over the long term is far worse than any imagined

benefits.

And correlation doesn't mean causation.

Want to bulster your odds of not getting any cancer? Eat lots of veggies for fiber and little sugar and flour and chemicals.

Coffee trashes your kidney and adrenals and dehydrates your body.

[yesphan]

17. Yes, but if

you own stock in coffee companies, this is great news ! (I don't by the way.)

[themadstork]

18. No it doesn't.

Coffee does not dehydrate you.

[IDemo]

19. I'm the picture of health, in that case n/t

[cigsandcoffee]

20. Nice... n/t

[Sherman A1]

21. Agreed

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