Coffee and cancer

Cafestol and kahweol, compounds that are extracted from the beans' oil during brewing. Unfiltered coffee, such as French press or boiled coffee, contains these compounds.

In excess, coffee, and more particularly, caffeine, can cause problems. But the fretting about two or three cups a day, or even more, is fading as study results suggestive of health benefits from coffee keep on coming in. In 2011, researchers reported findings that coffee drinking is associated with a lower risk of depression among women, a lower risk of lethal prostate cancer among men, and a lower risk of stroke among men and women. Go back a little further, and you'll come across reports of possible (it's not a done deal) protective effects against everything from Parkinson's disease to diabetes to some types of cancer.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Health_Letter/2012/January/what-is-it-about-coffee

More info regarding diet.

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Sephie,

Sorry the link did not work. I am not sure how to post them. Maybe another forum member knows how and could pass it on so I don't do it again.

I will try posting again.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Health_Letter/2012/January/what-is-it-about-coffee

This one works:

tinyurl.com/a86zss5

I woud hazard a guess that if we google anything we enjoy, we will find a study that will imply that it s bad for us. The water we drink, the air we breathe, many of the medications prescribed for us, etc, all have some problems.

Honestly, I really have to stop worrying about all this stuff.

Goodlife

my surgeon says that 2-3 black coffees a day are good for you. It's the milk and sugar which ain't great. I'm a 3-5 coffees a day person. I Rome it was really good coffee, here it's the nespresso machine. Wanted to get a French press.

Hi James. Welcome to CA, Coffee Anonymous. The first step is to recognize the problem. Wait....it's not a problem....I'll go brew a pot for all....

I gave up all caffeine drinks over 25 years ago, and have never missed them. This includes coffee, all teas, caffeine sodas, etc. Caffeine always made me feel nervous, even in small doses and made my bowels loose. All I miss is the smell of coffee brewing.

david

I actually only drink about 3-4 cups of straight up black a day. Weekends tend to be slightly more.

I'm a java freak too, I got to have it. Been drinking it since I was a teen. I drink about 4-5 cups with just little sugar. I dont think that amount is too bad compared to some I know who can drink pots all day long. For many years I used Sweet and Low until someone sent me a email last year on how bad it was for you. My Dr. keeps telling me to stop drinking it, at least go down to one cup a day. I laugh when he tells me this. I tried Green Tea a bit but it upsets my stomach, I guess I have to get use to it. Very interesting on all the studys on it. You hear something new every day.

Nothing beats a Bailey's and coffee.  However, gave it up, as there is a lot of dairy in the Bailey's. Sure do miss it.

During four years in Uncle Sam's canoe club (U.S.N.) and then thirty years at a job that ran on coffee I turned up G-9.  So much for the coffee theory.

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Coffee also has benefit to our livers per studies done in Japan and Italy. Specifically it protects us from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) - liver cancer.

Peter, aren't you the funny one.

clocknut I am not sure about PCa and coffee (haven't looked at the studies) but for livers there is absolute scientific proof that coffee is protective and not from some kook online site that wants to sell us 10$ a cup java while wearing Tin Foil Hats and singing the praises of baking soda cures for cancer(s).

The hard science showed coffee warded off HCC in patients.

The study had over 90,000 people in it: "Newly diagnosed case patients (250 men and 84 women) with HCC were identified from a 10-year follow-up of the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study, which consists of 90 452 middle-aged and elderly Japanese subjects (43 109 men and 47 343 women)."

Influence of Coffee Drinking on Subsequent Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Prospective Study in Japan
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/97/4/293.long

Above is the details of the study and below are associated studies.

It is more than "maybe" and hard science.

Inoue M, Yoshimi I, Sobue T, Tsugane S. Influence of coffee drinking on subsequent risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: a prospective study in Japan. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005 Feb 16;97(4):293-300.

Lee KJ, Inoue M, Otani T, Iwasaki M, Sasazuki S, Tsugane S. Coffee consumption and risk of colorectal cancer in a population-based prospective cohort of Japanese men and women. Int J Cancer. 2007 Sep 15;121(6):1312-8.

Oba S, Shimizu N, Nagata C, et al. The relationship between the consumption of meat, fat, and coffee and the risk of colon cancer: a prospective study in Japan. Cancer Lett. 2006 Dec 8;244(2):260-7.

Shimazu T, Tsubono Y, Kuriyama S, et al. Coffee consumption and the risk of primary liver cancer: pooled analysis of two prospective studies in Japan. Int J Cancer. 2005 Aug 10;116(1):150-4.

Ohfuji S, ***ushima W, Tanaka T, et al. Coffee consumption and reduced risk of hepatocellular carcinoma among patients with chronic type C liver disease: A case-control study. Hepatol Res. 2006 Nov;36(3):201-8.

Tanaka K, Hara M, Sakamoto T, et al. Inverse association between coffee drinking and the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: a case-control study in Japan. Cancer Sci. 2007 Feb;98(2):214-8.

Kurozawa Y, Ogimoto I, Shibata A, et al. Coffee and risk of death from hepatocellular carcinoma in a large cohort study in Japan. Br J Cancer. 2005 Sep 5;93(5):607-10.[url]