研究:咖啡能预防部分癌症

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This study, looked at many other studies which looked at thousands of patients, and what they found is that people who drank more than four cups a day had a 39% lower risk of getting cancer of the mouth or cancer of the pharynx. That's a pretty big benefit, but again that was one folks drink more than four cups of coffee a day. Now they don't know why coffee might be good for you, but they do think it might have something to do with the antioxidants that are in coffee.

All right, so, instead of drinking, you know, one may be two cups of coffee every morning should we just say heck are they, and drink the whole pot?

Oh, you know, you might wanna think twice before you do that. Because as you said, there have been studies they go back and forth and there've certainly been studies that show that coffee can make you irritable and anxious, not surprising all the caffeine, and also that it can raise your blood pressure and raise your heart rates. So before you just choke all that down, you wanna think about that, and sort of … you know, think about, you know, kind of what am my most nervous about here, really, what am my objective? I mean more than four cups of coffee a day, that's a lot of coffee.

Right, and it's interesting though, because we've seen, as you have talked about these studies, and talked about large amounts of coffee actually helping with other things as well prostate cancer and some cases perhaps brain tumors and other cases. Is there a way a sort of distill out what is good about the coffee and not worried about some of the other problems, especially for people who, let's say, have high blood pressure shouldn't be having four cups?

Well I think you put your figure on, if you have high blood pressure, you might wanna stay away from four cups of coffee a day. If you have, let's say, Parkinson's disease in your family, you might wanna talk to your doctor, hey maybe should I be drinking a couple of cups of coffee a day because there some studies that show that coffee can decrease your risk of getting Parkinson. So what really has to do is what are you most anxious about. Now speaking of anxious, if you are one of those people who can drink a lot of coffee and not feel jumpy or restless, you know, that's terrific. You should talk to your doctor about, well maybe I'm someone who should drink more coffee, because there are benefits and I don't seem to suffer from that irritability.