6 coffee cups a day cuts womb,
cancer risk
Women who drink four to six cups of coffee a day
are less likely to suffer from womb cancer, while men who drink the
same amount are less likely to suffer from prostate cancer, says a study by
Harvard University.
The researchers studied 117,000 volunteers- 67,000 women and 50,000 men over a 20-year period, the Daily Mail reported.
The effects were seen regardless of whether the people drank regular or decaffeinated coffee. This suggested the effects are not linked to caffeine.
Though many people limit the amount of coffee they consume as it can cause a rise in blood pressure, other studies suggest the drink may also offer health benefits, the daily said.
Regular coffee drinkers also appeared to have a lower risk of Type-2 diabetes, gallstones, colon cancer and even Parkinson's disease.
In the latest research, the Harvard team found that women who drank four or more cups a day reduced their risk of endometrial cancer by 25 per cent compared to those who drank less than one cup a day.
A similar effect was found for decaffeinated coffee, but tea consumption had no impact.
The experts also looked at coffee intake among 50,000 men.
Those who drank six or more cups had an 18 per cent lower risk of suffering from prostate cancer and a 60 per cent lower risk of developing its most deadly form.
The drink can improve glucose processing and has anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects, all of which play roles in cancer progression, the daily said.
The researchers, however, warned against adding sugar and cream to each cup because the extra calories could offset benefits gained from the coffee.
16.10.2012
Vegetarians have more
health benefits than meat eaters: Study
Loma
Linda University study suggests that being vegetarian may give you more health benefits
than eating meat. The kinds of foods frequently consumed in vegetarian diets
can reduce a person’s risk for diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and
type 2 diabetes, control body mass index and waist size, and boost brain
health, the study also revealed.
Loma
Linda University in California has tracked tens of thousands of Seventh-day
Adventists since 1958. According to the Huffington Post, their series of
studies in the ’70s and ’80s were the first to show that vegetarians live
longer than meat eaters. Loma Linda received a grant from the National
Institutes of Health in 2002 to continue the research on Seventh-day Adventists
as Adventist Health Study 2.
The
study, which is midway to completion and includes 96,000 people from the United
States and Canada, presents findings just as dramatic, principal investigator
Gary E. Fraser, MD, PhD, said at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ 2012
Food ‘n’ Nutrition Conference and Expo, reported DNA.
Fraser
explained that vegetarian men live to an average of 83.3 years and vegetarian
women 85.7 years — 9.5 and 6.1 years, respectively, longer than other
Californians.
The
Adventist Health Study 2 also found that compared to meat eaters vegans are, on
average, 30 pounds lighter, five units lighter on the BMI scale, less insulin
resistant than meat eaters.
Numerous
factors are boosting the overall health of these participants was suggested by
the fact that lean people are also more likely to exercise regularly, eat
plants and avoid cigarettes than overweight people. Pesco-vegetarians and
semi-vegetarians have ‘intermediate protection’ against lifestyle diseases.
They limit animal products, but still eat meat once a week or so.
The
most shocking finding in the study is that an African-American’s life span is
cut by 6.2% due to obesity. The study population was 25% African-American and
half vegetarian.
16.10.2012
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