Drinking Coffee Daily, Prostate Cancer Go

Drinking Coffee Daily, Prostate Cancer Go - The results of recent research in the United States shows, coffee drinkers, particularly men, have a lower risk of developing deadly prostate cancer types.

Research over the past 20 years (1986-2006) involving nearly 50,000 men revealed that men who drank at least six cups of coffee per day the risk of prostate cancer 20 percent less than men who never drank coffee. In addition, the risk of death from prostate cancer on coffee fans are also 60 percent lower than non-drinkers.

Lorelei Mucci, ScD, MPH, researcher and professor of epidemiology at Harvard School of Public Health, said that the low-caffeine coffee fans are also still get the benefits, "because the low-caffeine coffee types are also equally effective in preventing prostate cancer."

These findings, according to experts, given the large impact of prostate cancer is a disease that often haunt the Adam. Each year an estimated 37,000 new cases of prostate cancer and caused at least 10,000 deaths.

However, researchers from Harvard did not directly advocate a non-coffee drinkers drink coffee due to direct this research. The reason, in a study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the research team in addition to comparing the intake of coffee, also interviewed respondents about food intake every four years based on medical records.

Recorded nearly two-thirds or about 66 percent of the volunteers drank a cup of coffee a day and at least 5 percent drink at least six cups or more each day. Most coffee drinkers were less likely to smoke and exercise.

However, in this case, experts believe that there are other chemicals in coffee that provides benefits for the prevention of prostate cancer. They estimate, a type of antioxidant substances may reduce the risk of cancer and prevent tumor growth by suppressing lethal levels of a number of sexual hormones, regulating blood sugar levels, and prevents inflammation or inflammation.

Meanwhile, Mark Kawachi, MD, Director of the Prostate Cancer Center at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, Calif., argues that coffee is a beverage that is very complex. "In it there are so many chemicals, both existing and yet unknown," he said.

To that end, the results of this research must be proven and validated by further research which is also independent. Because this research only proves the relationship between coffee consumption and lower risk of deadly prostate cancer.