Coffee…Research Confirms It Again

Posted on December 19, 2007 
Filed Under Physical Health, Parenting

Interesting article in The Telegraph (U.K.) about coffee. It can cut the risk of skin cancer by more than a third, according to recent research.

   
 

Researchers found that people who drank more than six cups of caffeinated coffee a day reduced their chances of developing the most common form of skin cancer by 35 per cent while those who drank two or three cups were 12 per cent less likely to have the disease.

Scientists believe caffeine could stop the spread of skin cancer - for any number of plausible reasons.

I’ve taken some grief at home for my consumption of the black stuff. Now that this study is out, I think I’ll have fewer complaints. Doesn’t hurt, either, that my wife is drinking coffee pretty regularly, and two of the older kids like it (we only let them have half a cup a week or so).

Read the complete article right here

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