Benefits of Coffee Detailed in Health Studies: Reduced Likelihood of Breast and Liver Cancers, Reduced Diabetes, Improved Short-
January 18 2006 - 9:45AM
PR Newswire (US)
PARLIN, N.J., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Health benefits of coffee
keep pouring in. A new cancer study links higher coffee consumption
to lower percentage of women who develop breast cancer. Recent
studies have shown that those who drink more than three cups of
coffee daily are less likely to develop high blood pressure,
suggest that coffee drinkers are less likely to develop liver
cancer, showed that coffee is the number one source of healthy
antioxidants in the American diet, and that coffee reduces
development of type 2 diabetes. Other coffee studies suggest that
coffee contributes to better short-term memory and that coffee may
increase sex drive in women. The latest coffee study was conducted
by Steven Narod of the University of Toronto. The study, published
in the International Journal of Cancer in January, studied women
with a very specific gene mutation known as BRCA1. Those women have
an 80 percent risk of developing breast cancer before their 70th
birthday. But according to Narod, those involved in his study, "...
who drank six or more cups of coffee a day on average had about a
75 percent reduction in the risk of developing breast cancer." A
recent study of sexual behavior in rats suggests that coffee serves
as the equivalent of female Viagra. That study was tentative at
best, and looked only at rats which were not habitual coffee
drinkers. So women who consume coffee rarely may find coffee to be
a sexual stimulant. But other health studies link coffee
consumption to solid evidence that high levels of antioxidants in
coffee carry health benefits and may reduce the risk of several
cancers. A separate cancer study shows coffee drinkers are less
likely to develop cancer of the liver as consumption levels
increase. A paper presented last year at the Radiological Society
of North America (RSNA) in Chicago linked coffee drinking with
better short-term memory. Florian Koppelstatter, M.D., Ph.D., said,
"We were able to show that caffeine modulates a higher brain
function through its effects on distinct areas of the brain."
Koppelstatter is a radiology fellow at the Medical
University-Innsbruck in Austria. Health benefits of gourmet coffees
can be discussed at the Coffee Talk Forum:
http://www.tastesoftheworld.net/talk/. Tastes of The World was
recently interviewed by Radio New Zealand and profiled in a Reuters
"News of the Weird" on their gourmet coffee called Kopi Luwak,
because it passes through the digestive tract of the cat-like Palm
Civet, and is the most expensive coffee in the world. Exotic Kopi
Luwak coffee, from Indonesia, sells through the Tastes of The World
web site at $175 per pound. About Tastes of The World Tastes of The
World coffee company focuses on specialty gourmet coffee not
readily available in the US. Rare gourmet coffee is their business,
so they make shopping with them risk-free: "If you are happy, tell
a friend; if you are not, tell us."
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