Drink Coffee, Protect Your Liver
Here's some good news for us coffee drinkers!
From Men's Journal
For years, coffee got blamed for causing cancer, heart disease,
osteoporosis, and more. Now doctors realize that those health troubles
probably had more to do with coffee drinkers' cigarette and jelly doughnut
habits than their morning cups of Joe. In fact, http://www.mensjournal.
com/health-fitness/health/coffees-heart-health-benefits-20130517" more
studies are now showing that coffee carries several serious health
benefits, such as staving off Parkinson's disease and type 2 diabetes.
Researchers have just uncovered another big perk: Coffee can slash your
risk of liver cancer by 40 percent.
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Just how does coffee protect the liver? "There are a number of possible
mechanisms," says Neal Freedman, an investigator with the National
Cancer Institute. "Coffee is a rich source of antioxidants," which protect
the body against disease-causing free radicals and inflammation. Freedman
says coffee also may improve insulin signaling, which could help prevent
diabetes, a known risk factor for liver cancer. "Many observational studies
have suggested that people who drink coffee may be less likely to get
diabetes," he says. "Having diabetes can increase your risk of developing
liver cancer, so coffee drinking potentially protects against liver cancer by
reducing your likelihood of diabetes."
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