Does Coffee cause or help the onset of Cancer? Or does it inhibit Cancer?
Only Cancer knows!
Caffeine blocks your intuition and creativity. If you have to sit down and do high-level work like developing your next quarterly plan, caffeine will reduce your ability to concentrate. Your mind races too much on caffeine; it’s hard to stay focused on just one thing.
Additionally, caffeine definitely disrupts sleep habits. You just don’t sleep as well. With no caffeine, you sleep more restfully and wake up easily.
Cancer has been shown to be a substance that creates a favourable environment for cancer to develop. It is time to give it up for more health-enhancing beverages.
http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Coffee_Shown_To_Causes_Cancer.html
New research suggests that drinking four or more cups of coffee a day can cut a woman’s risk of endometrial cancer by up to 25%. Endometrial cancer is a malignancy that forms in the lining of the uterus. More than 46,000 women in the U.S. will contract endometrial cancer this year, and more than 8,000 will die from it.
A study released today in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention journal reviewed the data from over 67,000 women who participated in the Nurses’ Study beginning in 1980. In reviewing the data, researchers determined that women who consumed four or more cups of coffee a day had a 25% lower incidence of endometrial cancer than women who consumed one or less cups of coffee a day. The trend was only associated with regular coffee, however; decaffeinated coffee was not associated as strongly with decreased cancer risk.
http://www.care2.com/causes/does-coffee-protect-you-from-cancer.html#ixzz1eiQP2RaF
The health effects of coffee have been studied to determine how coffee drinking affects humans. Coffee contains several compounds which are known to affect human body chemistry. The coffee bean itself contains chemicals which are mild psychotropics for humans as a defense mechanism of the Coffeacute plant. These chemicals are toxic in large doses, or even in their normal amount when consumed by many creatures which may otherwise have threatened the beans in the wild. Coffee contains caffeine, which acts as a stimulant.
Recent research has uncovered additional stimulating effects of coffee which are not related to its caffeine content. Coffee contains a currently unknown chemical agent which stimulates the production of cortisone and adrenaline, two stimulating hormones.[1]
For occasions when one wants to enjoy the flavor of coffee with almost no stimulation, decaffeinated coffee (also called decaf) is available. This is coffee from which most of the caffeine has been removed, by the Swiss water process (which involves the soaking of raw beans to remove the caffeine) or the use of a chemical solvent such as trichloroethylene (“tri“), or the more popular methylene chloride, in a similar process. Another solvent used is ethyl acetate; the resultant decaffeinated coffee is marketed as “natural decaf” because ethyl acetate is naturally present in fruit. Extraction withsupercritical carbon dioxide has also been employed.
Decaffeinated coffee usually loses some flavor compared to normal coffee. There are also coffee alternatives that resemble coffee in taste but contain no caffeine (see below). These are available both in ground form for brewing and in instant form.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee
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- Coffee may protect against endometrial cancer (eurekalert.org)
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