Coffee consumption reduces colon cancer, and it doesn’t matter if its caffeinated or not (… if you’re anal retentive about your colon cancer, check out the study cited below).
But, a new study is touting high doses of aspirin as a way to accomplish the very same thing. So. Aspirin pills every day versus a cup of coffee in the morning.
Given how healthy, and comforting, and yummy coffee is, it’s not clear why anyone would take a pill to accomplish the very same thing.
Plus, plus, plus, taking aspirin every day can lead to, according to this article, “
sometimes deadly bleeding in the stomach and intestines.” (link to the Reuters article is below as well)
Deadly bleeding??!! Are you kidding me? Neither coffee nor tea will perforate your bowels … just sayin’.
Just keep in mind when you hear reports like these, that you have a number of options when you’re trying to live a healthy lifestyle. The lifestyle approach just makes so much more common sense to me.
What’s odd is how infrequently such lifestyle options are prescribed, as compared to pills, powders, and procedures. Isn’t that odd? What would a cynic/realists make of those data?
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Abstract below is from the Journal of thenational Cancer Institute; Vol 97, No 4, pp 282-292, Feb 16, 2005
Background: Frequent coffee consumption has been associated with a reduced risk of colorectal cancer in a number of case–control studies. Cohort studies have not revealed such an association but were limited in size. We explored the association between consumption of coffee and tea and the incidence of colorectal cancer in two large prospective cohorts of women and men. Methods: We used data from the Nurses’ Health Study (women) and the Health Professionals’ Follow-up Study (men). Consumption of coffee and tea and total caffeine intake were assessed and updated in 1980, 1984, 1986, 1990, and 1994 among women and in 1986, 1990, and 1994 among men. The incidence of cancer of the colon or rectum was ascertained through 1998. Hazard ratios were calculated using Cox proportional hazards models that adjusted for potential confounders. All tests of statistical significance were two-sided. Results: During almost 2 million person-years of follow-up, 1438 cases of colorectal cancer were observed. Consumption of caffeinated coffee or tea with caffeine or caffeine intake was not associated with the incidence of colon or rectal cancer in either cohort. For both cohorts combined, the covariate-adjusted hazard ratio for colorectal cancer associated with consumption of each additional cup of caffeinated coffee was 0.99 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.96 to 1.03). However, participants who regularly consumed two or more cups of decaffeinated coffee per day had a 52% (95% CI = 19% to 71%) lower incidence of rectal cancer than those who never consumed decaffeinated coffee. Conclusions: Consumption of caffeinated coffee, tea with caffeine, or caffeine was not associated with incidence of colon of rectal cancer, whereas regular consumption of decaffeinated coffee was associated with a reduced incidence of rectal cancer.
– Low-dose aspirin lowers colon cancer risk: UK study | Reuters
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