People who consume three or more alcoholic beverages a day increase their risk for liver cancer. That includes beer, wine and distilled liquor beverages.
But coffee may counteract that danger.
Scientists at the World Cancer Research Fund analyzed data from 34 studies involving over 8 million subjects. Nearly 25,000 had developed liver cancer.
Coffee to the Rescue
The investigators discovered that one cup of coffee a day could reduce the risk of liver cancer by 14 percent. When the data were adjusted, they held for men but not for women.
Of course, this is not a license to abuse alcohol, but the discovery that coffee has anticancer activity comes as good news…and it’s not the first time. Coffee consumption has previously been associated with a lower likelihood of developing mouth, bowel and uterine cancer.
