While you should never rely on any one thing for preventing sickness and disease - such as vitamins or any supplements - nor should you rely on any one thing for keeping you at optimal health, it is nice to know that some of the things most of us take pleasure in consuming each day could be beneficial to our health. For instance, there is a report that suggests our daily dose of java could be helping prevent cancer. While we always suggest a diet rich in fruits and vegetables as the best source of nutrients, vitamins, and antioxidants as the best defense against illness, some coffee and/or tea may provide some help too. Here's more --
Individuals who drink half a cup of drink coffee and tea daily may reduce their risk of glioma by 34 percent, according to a new study published in the November issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Researchers at Brown University analyzed data from 410,309 men and women in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study, who reported coffee and tea consumption in food-frequency questionnaires and were followed over 8.5 years. The researchers used Cox proportional hazards models to examine the relation between coffee and tea and brain tumors.
During the study 343 cases of glioma and 245 cases of meningioma were newly diagnosed in nine countries. The researchers observed no associations between coffee, tea, or combined coffee and tea consumption and risk of either type of brain tumor when using quantiles based on country-specific distributions of intake. A significant inverse association was observed for glioma risk among those individuals consuming ≥100 mL coffee and tea per day compared with those consuming <100 mL/d (hazard ratio: 0.66; 95% CI: 0.44, 0.97; P = 0.03). The association was slightly stronger in men (hazard ratio: 0.59; 95% CI: 0.34, 1.01) than in women (hazard ratio: 0.74; 95% CI: 0.42, 1.31), although neither was statistically significant. (source...)
Other reports indicate that coffee can boost our brain's performance. As reported by HealthNews18.com, a team of scientists from University of Barcelona, Spain, has conducted some series of tests on the combined effect of caffeine and sugar. This team studied the brain scan reports of 40 study takers who were divided into four groups. After analyzing the reports, the scientists have come to a conclusion that the combined effect of caffeine and sugar did boost the two key areas of brain which are responsible for “attention and working memory” by consuming little resources. (source...)
Comments: While we can conclude that there are some benefits to drinking a moderate amount of coffee and/or tea each day, the results are not exactly clear. What is clear is a diet rich in ripe, raw whole food fruits and vegetables. Of course, we recommend Juice Plus+ as a way to get more nutrients from a variety of those foods if you're not consuming enough of them. In the end, we'll all keep drinking our java each day, and maybe with the confidence that it's doing some good for us!
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