Daily Cups of Coffee Can Cut Bowel Cancer Risk, Say Researchers
A recently published study has concluded that people who regularly drink coffee as part of their morning routine are less likely to develop certain types of cancers.
The study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and was conducted by researchers at the United States National Cancer Research Institute (USNCRI) located in Rockville, Md.
The researcher were examining the effects of continual coffee consumption and found that for those who drank coffee on a daily basis they showed a reduction in the possibility of developing bowel cancer by as much as 25 percent.
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Scientists collected a pool of nearly 500,000 individuals spread across all age demographics and then monitored coffee consumption and cancer rates among the participants for 10 years.
The study showed that the group that drank at least four cups of coffee daily was found to have reduced their bowel and rectal cancer risk by 15 percent, while those who consumed six or more cups of coffee a day saw a decrease in the rates of cancer by nearly 25 percent.
"It is particularly encouraging to see that coffee consumption may lower the risk of bowel cancer given that over 40,000 men and women are diagnosed with it in the U.K. every year, making it the third most common cancer," Dr. Euan Paul, executive director of the British Coffee Association, told NBCNews.com.
Researchers are quick to point out that not all coffee had the same effect. Coffee that was consumed which was decaffeinated produced some beneficial results during the study, but they were not as profound or as widespread.
Researchers also explained that those participants who had drank comparable amounts of tea showed no observable effect.
"Additional investigations of coffee intake and its components in the prevention of colorectal cancer are warranted," researchers said in the study.
