Curing Cancer with . . . Coffee?

Cancer is a dreaded disease found throughout every corner of the globe. Sure, there are treatments; medical science has become so advanced, right? But curing it is never easy, and sometimes impossible, so we recommend that you heed to the proverb you learned back in high school: prevention is better than a cure. Your best hope of cheating cancer is to know how to avoid it in the first place.

There are many different kinds of cancer: colorectal, pancreatic, lung, liver, prostate, and skin, to name a few. According to a recent study, the cancerous cells that are responsible for breast cancer in women are also the malignant cause of prostate and pancreatic cancer in men. Alcohol consumption and smoking, both first- and secondhand, make contraction of the deadly disease significantly more likely.

There’s tons of advice out there about how to prevent the deadly disease. But did you know that something as simple as the coffee you drink has an immense potential to lower your cancer risk? Sure, you know coffee is a stimulant, and you drink it to help stay awake and alert. Your friends, with your best intentions at heart, advise you think twice before drinking too much of the stuff, since it causes insomnia, not to mention increased risk of stroke, arthritis, and even high cholesterol. But there is a reason to cheer, coffee addicts!

The myth that drinking coffee can increase the risk of cancer has been busted. In fact, quite to the contrary, it has been reported that if you drink one cupppa joe a day, you cut your chances of getting liver cancer by 23%. Two cups daily makes you 55% less likely to get liver cancer than someone who does not drink coffee at all. According to another recent study, a combination of coffee and exercise can destroy cancerous cells in the skin caused by the UV rays.

So, next time you’re ordering for coffee, go ahead and do it with confidence, knowing that you’re reducing your cancer risk!