Here is a really interesting article one of our team found on a colleague of mine’s Practice Newsletter. The Practice called ‘AESTHETICS’ is down in Hertfordshire, a beautiful new business with a fantastic team – well done Harry and the guys there on your acheivement. details at /www.aesthetics-dentistry.com/.
A cup of coffee a day could half the risk of mouth cancers and cancers of the throat and throat, according to new research carried out by University researchers in Japan.
Japanese scientists who tracked patients’ drinking habits for 13 years found those downing at least one cup a day were much less likely to get tumours than those who hardly ever drank coffee. According to Cancer Research UK, mouth cancer kills around 1,600 people a year in Britain and cancer of the oesophagus another 7,400. The findings, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, suggest a daily dose of caffeine could offset some of the risk from alcohol and tobacco – the main causes of such cancers. Previous studies have produced mixed results on whether coffeehas a protective effect and have felt
that it adds to the risk. Smoking and excessive drinking are the key culprits in both types of tumours becausetheycontaindamaging chemicals called nitrosamines. But in the latest investigation, experts at the Tohoku University School of Medicine in Japan, concluded certain chemicals found in caffeine protect the body’s DNA against damage that can lead to cancer. British consumers apparently drink an estimated 70 million cups of coffee a day. To see if coffee offered any
protection, researchers studied nearly 40,000 people aged 40 to 64 over a 13-year period. During that time, 157 of the volunteers developed mouth or gullet cancer. When researchers analysed their diet and lifestyle, they found those drinking
at least one coffee every day were 49% less likely to be affected than those who rarely or never drank. In a report on
the results, they said: ‘One of the most significant findings was the inverse association between coffee and those at high risk of these cancers, namely current drinkers and smokers. ‘Although quitting alcohol and smoking is the best known way to help reduce the risk, coffee could be a preventive factor.’
So feel free to come and relax in our patient lounge and enjoy one of our coffee ranges.
I wonder if the coffee is as good as at Speinggrove Clinic?!