Java junkies have even more reason to rejoice – drinking coffee may lower the risk of liver cancer. Hard on the heels of other recent studies that show positive aspects of coffee on health, including a reduction in the risk of colon cancer, diabetes, and Parkinson's disease, the most recent report found that coffee drinkers were 41 percent less likely to develop liver cancer than those who didn't drink coffee.
The report investigated the results of ten studies on coffee and liver cancer that included 2,260 people with liver cancer and almost 240,000 people without the disease. The investigators found that for every cup of coffee people drink daily, their risk of having liver cancer decreased by 23 percent when compared to people who didn't drink coffee. And those who drank a lot of coffee – up to three cups – lowered their risk by 55 percent.
The studies were conducted in different countries all over the world, including Greece, Japan, and Italy, and suggest the studies weren't merely a coincidence. Researchers speculated that the reason for the decrease was that coffee increases liver enzymes which may lower the risk of cirrhosis and liver cancer.
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