News tagged with coffee consumption


Consuming coffee linked to lower risk of detrimental liver disease, study finds

Regular consumption of coffee is associated with a reduced risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), an autoimmune liver disease, Mayo Clinic research shows. The findings were being presented at the Digestive Disease ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created May 19, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Coffee may help prevent breast cancer returning, study finds

Drinking coffee could decrease the risk of breast cancer recurring in patients taking the widely used drug Tamoxifen, a study at Lund University in Sweden has found. Patients who took the pill, along with ...

Cancer created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Where does coffee stand in your health?

We are often asked whether coffee is good or bad for the health. The answer is both good and bad.

Health created Apr 13, 2013 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Does Greek coffee hold the key to a longer life?

The answer to longevity may be far simpler than we imagine; it may in fact be right under our noses in the form of a morning caffeine kick. The elderly inhabitants of Ikaria, the Greek island, boast the highest rates of longevity ...

Health created Mar 18, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study shows a hit of caffeine can boost your information-processing skills

(Medical Xpress)—That cup of coffee you have each morning could be doing more than giving you a wake-up jolt; it may actually improve your ability to process information. That's according to a study by ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 21, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Study on benefits of coffee in preventing oral cancer requires follow-up research, Loyola dentist says

A recent study from the American Cancer Society purports that heavy coffee drinkers may reduce the risk of dying from mouth and throat cancer by half, but one dentist is not raising a coffee cup in support.

Cancer created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Moderate coffee consumption may reduce risk of diabetes by up to 25 percent

Drinking three to four cups of coffee per day may help to prevent type 2 diabetes according to research highlighted in a session report published by the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC), a not-for-profit ...

Diabetes created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Osteoporosis risk factors after the menopause

A preliminary study of 127 post-menopausal women on hormone replacement therapy in Portugal suggests that there are several risk factors associated with osteoporosis and bone fracture these include age, low bone mineral density, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Caffeine's effect on the brain's adenosine receptors visualized for the first time

Molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) has enabled scientists for the first time to visualize binding sites of caffeine in the living human brain to explore possible positive and negative ...

Medical research created Nov 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Five or more cups of coffee a day reduce the chance of IVF success by around 50 percent

Women who drink five or more cups of coffee a day severely reduce their chance of success from IVF treatment. Indeed, Danish investigators who followed up almost 4000 IVF and ICSI patients described the adverse impact as ...

Health created Jul 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Coffee consumption inversely associated with risk of most common form of skin cancer

Increasing the number of cups of caffeinated coffee you drink could lower your risk of developing the most common form of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma, according to a study published in Cancer Research, a jour ...

Cancer created Jul 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Moderate coffee consumption offers protection against heart failure

While current American Heart Association heart failure prevention guidelines warn against habitual coffee consumption, some studies propose a protective benefit, and still others find no association at all. ...

Cardiology created Jun 26, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Eat slowly and reduce diabetes risk

Your parents must have told you a thousand times - don't eat so fast, slow down! Now it appears that scientific research is backing them up. At the recent joint International Congress of Endocrinology and European Congress ...

Diabetes created Jun 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Coffee, caffeine not linked to psoriasis in U.S. women

(HealthDay) -- Coffee and caffeine are not associated with psoriasis incidence after adjustment for smoking, according to a research letter published in the March issue of the Archives of Dermatology.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Coffee consumption reduces fibrosis risk in those with fatty liver disease

Caffeine consumption has long been associated with decreased risk of liver disease and reduced fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease. Now, newly published research confirms that coffee caffeine consumption reduces ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0