One cup of coffee per day helps protect alcohol drinkers from liver disease

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Drinking coffee protects alcohol drinkers from developing liver

disease, says a new study carried out at the Kaiser Permanente

Medical Care Program, California, USA. According to the researchers,

one cup of coffee per day lowered the incidence of cirrhosis of the

liver for alcohol drinkers by 22%.

 

Study leader, Dr. Arthur Klatsky, stressed that alcohol drinking,

especially excess drinking, is linked to various different physical

risks. As such, said Klatsky, the study's findings should not be

interpreted as a licence to booze to your heart's content. He advised

people not to consumer more than three alcoholic drinks a day.

 

This is not the first study to link coffee consumption to less liver

disease. Another study published in Gastroentorology in December,

2005, had similar findings.

 

This new study was much larger than last years'. The new study was

able to look more into each cause of cirrhosis and how coffee is

linked a lower incidence of them.

 

The Kaiser Permanente study looked at information on 125,000 people

with healthy livers from 1978 to 1985. Information had been collected

about their alcohol, coffee and tea drinking habits. Of the 330

people who had developed cirrhosis of the liver by 2001, 199 had done

so as a result of consuming alcohol. The researchers found that the

incidence of cirrhosis went down 22% for each cup of coffee consumed

per person per day.

 

You can read about this study in the Archives of Internal Medicine,

June 12 issue.

 

Scientists are still unsure what it is in the coffee that provides

the protection. It cannot be the caffeine because tea has caffeine

but does not provide the same protection. Clinical trials are needed

to further identify the relationship between coffee and how it lowers

the incidence of liver disease.

 

Written by: Christian Nordqvist

Editor: Medical News Today

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Too bad coffee tastes like burnt mud...

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HI fraggle

 

What do you do to it then? - and how do you know it tastes like burnt mud

:-)

 

BB

Jo

 

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Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:36 PM

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drinkers from liver disease

 

 

 

Too bad coffee tastes like burnt mud...

 

 

 

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i run screaming from it, as any good fraggle would

coffee is just nasty....

never ever could stand the taste of it

and..hey, sometimes when you don't watch the kettle, the mud burns

 

 

>jo <jo.heartwork

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>Re: One cup of coffee per day helps protect alcohol

drinkers from liver disease

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>HI fraggle

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>What do you do to it then? - and how do you know it tastes like burnt mud

>:-)

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>BB

>Jo

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> " fraggle " <EBbrewpunx

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>Wednesday, June 14, 2006 4:36 PM

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>drinkers from liver disease

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>Too bad coffee tastes like burnt mud...

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>To send an email to -

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