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Saturday, September 26, 2009

Surprising Coffee Health Benefits For Women

By Kirsten Whittaker

Tea and coffee drinkers can finally shout with joy - Because there are health benefits to be had.

Some new research agrees with your choice of drink!

It looks like endometrial cancer risk could be reduced by drinking more coffee or tea on a daily basis, the most common cancer of a woman's reproductive organs.

In 2008, the American Cancer Society estimates, just over 40,000 women would be diagnosed; and about 7400 deaths were associated with this cancer.

The elements that increase the risk of this cancer are well understood.

Being overweight, getting older and things that expose a women to higher levels of estrogen, like estrogen therapy, late menopause, erratic periods and considered as risk factors.

, but the impacts seem to be less clear than other risks. This study sought solutions to the role popular beverages might play in cancer risk.

The hospital based, involved nearly 1100 women; 541 subjects diagnosed with endometrial cancer.

It was shown that those who consumed coffee and black tea had a lower risk of uterine cancer.

Women who consumed 4 cups of coffee or tea/day had only half the chance as those who didn't drink these drinks to have endometrial cancer.

Those that drank over 2 cups of tea had a 44% reduced risk of the disease. The reduced chance was for those who just consumed coffee (over 2 cups/day), at about 29%, though this figure was not considered statistically significant in terms of research.

The benefits for people who were overweight were less pronounced.

Subjects included decaffeinated coffee as one of the drinks they drank, there was no reduction in risk.

Cancer has been shown to help neutralize cancer causing substances.

And if it is not the caffeine that is helping to reduce the risk then other compounds may be at work. Tea and coffee have antioxidants, flavonoids, catechins and isoflavonoids that can help reduce the risk of cancer.

Your beverage choice is not a guarantee of protection despite the coffee health benefits and and should never take the place of proper diet and medical care, a wholesome diet and other careful lifestyle choices. - 17273

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