June 13, 2006
I Knew It!
Study: Coffee counters booze in liver.
Researchers followed more than 125,000 Northern California Kaiser members between 1978 and 1985. Participants, none of whom had liver disease at the outset, filled out a questionnaire that included their alcohol, coffee and tea-drinking habits.By the end of 2001, 330 participants had been diagnosed with liver disease, and of those, 199 had alcohol-related cirrhosis.
Those who drank one cup of coffee per day were on average 20 percent less likely to have cirrhosis, despite heavy drinking. Drinking two to four cups of coffee reduced risk by 40 percent.
The Kaiser members who drank four or more cups of coffee per day cut their risk of developing liver cirrhosis by an astonishing 80 percent, according to the study, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
My day never feels complete without several cups of coffee in the morning and a glass or two of wine in the evening. Now I understand why: Nature meant it to be this way.
Sorry, gotta go drink my 17 cups of coffee now . . .
Posted by: The Colossus at June 13, 2006 04:01 PMPlenty of wine each evening --- don't even think of speaking to me before my third cup of coffee in the morning...Damn, I could live forever.
Posted by: Marvin at June 13, 2006 05:32 PMDang, the coffee's supposed to go in the -Morning- and the wine at -Night-??
Posted by: Lynellen at June 13, 2006 06:42 PMAnd then there are those of us who forego the alcohol and subsist solely on the coffee. Liver cirrhosis?! - I thumb my nose at you! Your father was a hamster and your mother smelt of elderberries!
Posted by: keysunset at June 13, 2006 09:28 PMMore evidence to present to my LDS neighbors in support of my own similar habits.
Posted by: Rae at June 14, 2006 04:43 PM
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