A team of specialists from the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia, conducted a new study, according to which 4 cups of coffee drunk during the day can almost halve the risk of fatal cancer of the oral cavity, regardless of whether the person has a tobacco or alcohol addiction. According to experts, the ability to prevent the disease from the drink is given by the numerous natural antioxidants that it contains.
In their report, scientists note: decaffeinated coffee also helps prevent cancer in the oral cavity, but to a lesser extent. According to preliminary data, it is known that, most likely, the source of the preventive properties of the drink, oddly enough, is not caffeine, but other natural components that are added to it during the production process.
It is worth noting that the ability to prevent oral cancer is far from the only beneficial property of coffee. Earlier research suggests that it can resist strokes, Alzheimer's, and bowel cancer. Before making sure that the product can provide protection against the development of cancerous tumors in the oral cavity, experts from Atlanta examined the data on nearly one million men and women registered with the Center for Cancer Prevention in the United States since 1982.
When they analyzed the information on the usual diet of patients, they found that people who drank more than 4 cups of coffee daily, compared with other people, suffered from cancer of the mouth by 49% less. Although a smaller, but still significant protection against the disease was received by those who drank one or two cups of coffee during the day, or drank decaffeinated coffee. Absolutely no benefit for their health from the preferred drink was not gained by tea lovers.
It is important to say that despite the beneficial properties that coffee has, drinking it in excessively large doses exceeding 1 liter per day is quite dangerous, because it is able to increase heart rate and blood pressure, which, in turn, can lead to the most undesirable consequences.
