Coffee protects against mouth cancerJune 22nd, 2010 - 6:00 am
ICT by IANS London, June 22 (IANS) Drinking four cups of coffee
a day helps protect against oral cancer, but doctors are of the
opinion that people should drink coffee in moderation because
the caffeine present in it can increase heart rate and blood
pressure. Some of the 1,000 chemicals present in coffee -
including antioxidants - can offer protection against many types
of cancer, a new research has said. The research, comprised of
nine studies conducted in Europe, America and Central America,
compared the coffee habits of around 5,000 cancer patients and
more than 9,000 healthy people, and took into account their
smoking, diet and alcohol habits. The researchers found that
regular coffee drinkers were 39 percent less likely to develop
cancers of the mouth and pharynx than people who drank no
coffee. “We had a very large sample size, and since we combined
data across many studies, we had more statistical power to
detect associations between cancer