Study Reveals Drinking Coffee Can Lower Your Chances of Skin
Cancer Want to avoid skin cancer? Have another cup of joe. A new
study finds coffee guzzlers are less likely to develop the most
common type of the disease. The study of more than 100,000
adults found that those who drank three or more cups of coffee a
day had a 20 percent lower risk of basal cell carcinoma than who
didn’t drink the beverage at all. Study author Jiali Han,
associate professor of dermatology and epidemiology at Boston’s
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard School of Public
Health, said it’s just the latest benefit found for putting on a
pot of coffee — previous studies have linked java to a reduced
risk of diabetes and Parkinson’s disease. But since decaf coffee
didn’t have the same effect, experts think it’s the caffeine
that matters. Dr. Josh Zeichner, assistant professor of
dermatology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, said
exposure to ultraviolet light from the sun can damage skin
cells’ DNA, and caffeine may help th