The next time someone gives you shit about your coffee addiction, you don’t have to lie about how many cups you’ve had: A new study\u00a0conducted by researchers at\u00a0Imperial College London in the U.K. suggests that three or four cups of coffee\u00a0a day could reduce your risk of endometrial cancer by upwards of 19 percent.<\/p>\n
To pinpoint potential cancer-fighters,\u00a0researchers examined\u00a0the diets and health records\u00a0of\u00a0more than 456,000 women, including\u00a01,303 women with endometrial cancer involved in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study, and 1,531 women with endometrial cancer involved in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) or Nurses’ Health Study II (NHSII).<\/p>\n
\u00a0While the data is pretty convincing\u00a0(and the world could always use another\u00a0reason to love coffee), this\u00a0research only shows a correlation, not causation. Researchers still\u00a0don’t know exactly how coffee could reduce the risk of cancer. (It\u00a0could have something to do with the antioxidants in coffee, or the\u00a0way that coffee affects your hormonal balance\u00a0\u2014 when your body has more estrogen than progesterone, you’re more likely to develop endometrial cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.)Another thing: The\u00a0data collected didn’t\u00a0break down coffee consumption by caffeine content, so\u00a0researchers don’t know whether decaf and regular coffee are equally effective. Either way,\u00a0three or four cups of coffee is kind of a lot \u2014\u00a0especially if\u00a0you’re sensitive to\u00a0caffeine or if you\u00a0only like the\u00a0*fAnCy*~ stuff, which can really do a number on\u00a0your bank account.\u00a0But until more\u00a0research is done?\u00a0You can rest assured that there are worse things than a coffee cup that’s almost\u00a0always full.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
First, the researchers looked at 84 foods and nutrients consumed by women in the\u00a0EPIC study. Nine\u00a0stood out: total fat, monounsaturated fat, phosphorus, carbohydrates, yogurt, butter, potatoes, cheese, and coffee all appeared to affect\u00a0people’s risk of cancer, for better or for worse.<\/p>\n
Next, researchers looked for those foods in dietary records collected in NHS and NHSII, and this time, only coffee stood out:\u00a0Women in the EPIC study\u00a0who drank three\u00a0cups of coffee per day had a 19 percent lower risk of endometrial cancer than women who drank less than one cup per day, and\u00a0women in the NHS studies who drank four cups of coffee per day had an 18 percent lower risk of cancer than women who never drank coffee.<\/p>\n
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Source: Cosmopolitan.com<\/p>\n
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