26 Jun 08 Cup Of Joe?
Recent studies have shown that coffee drinkers are at no greater risk of dying of cancer, heart attacks, or strokes than their non-coffee-drinking peers, and they may even be less likely to die of certain conditions.
Nearly 130,000 middle-aged men and women enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. They were asked about their coffee drinking during the 1980′s and filled out questionnaires every 2-3 years. The study didn’t end until 2004.
It was found that those who drank coffee run about the same risk of dying from cancers or heart diseases as non drinkers.
It’s not thought that it’s the caffeine that had any kind of effect one way or the other, but certain compounds in coffee do have antioxidant properties, which can help circulation, and reduce inflammation.
Also, magnesium, quinides and trigonelline in coffee have been associated with improved insulin sensitivity, which cuts the risk of type 2 diabetes, which itself often leads to heart disease.
Ok, it’s time for a brew!
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02 Nov 07 Save Your Bacon?
A report from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) – which slammed red meat as being a killer has now turned on pork, and particularly cured pork.
However, another report trotted out a few days ago warns that the addition of folic acid to food could increase the incidence of bowel, prostate and breast cancer in 20 years.
After years of encouraging pregnant mothers to take extra folic acid, a new report now suggests they’ll all sucumb to cancers of the digestive system and not see their little ones grow up.
The strange thing is that although we mustn’t eat this, we must lose weight, eat no fat, drink little alcohol, and really stop leading such awful unhealthy gluttonous lives, insurance companies have just published a report, drawn from actuarial figures, predicting that half of all current 30-year-olds can expect to live to be 100. This odd world in which everything we do is killing us quickly but everyone is living longer can only encourage a bemused and fatalistic shrug.
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