Healthy Difference for Men: Coffee may help prevent Prostate Cancer - todaysthv.com | KTHV | Little Rock, AR

A study of nearly 50,000 men over 20 years shows that those who drank coffee had a 60 percent lower risk of aggressive prostate cancer.

The study shows that there was a reduction in the high grade cancers. Most men do not have the aggressive form of cancer.

The data indicates drinking coffee might even lower the risk of other types of prostate cancer. Coffee affects insulin and glucose metabolism, as well as sex hormone levels. All of them play a role in prostate cancer.

Doctors say the study suggests that caffeine is not the ideological factor for the reduction of high grade cancer. It could be hormonal or antioxidants.

The magic in the mug is not the caffeine; in fact, the research shows men benefitted even when they were drinking decaf.

Researchers emphasize it's still too early to say coffee will protect men against prostate cancer, but all indications are, it won't harm them.

via todaysthv.com

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