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My Bill Miller mug of coffee every morning has been saving my liver and I didn't even know it...
Coffee may reduce risk of cirrhosis
By CARLA K. JOHNSON
Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO (AP) -- Coffee may counteract alcohol's poisonous effects on the liver and help prevent cirrhosis, researchers say. In a study of more than 125,000 people, one cup of coffee per day cut the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis by 20 percent. Four cups per day reduced the risk by 80 percent. The coffee effect held true for women and men of various ethnic backgrounds.
It is unclear whether it is the caffeine or some other ingredient in coffee that provides the protection, said study co-author Dr. Arthur Klatsky of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif.
Of course, there is a better way to avoid alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver, Klatsky said.
"The way to avoid getting ill is not to drink a lot of coffee, but to cut down on the drinking" of alcohol, he said.
The participants ranged from teetotalers, who made up 12 percent of the total, to heavy drinkers, who made up 8 percent. The researchers calculated the risk reductions rate for the whole group, not just the drinkers.
Not all heavy drinkers develop cirrhosis, an irreversible scarring of the liver that hurts the organ's ability to filter toxins from the blood. Klatsky said the new findings may help explain why some people's livers survive heavy alcohol use.
Hepa is C and some inherited diseases can also cause cirrhosis. But the study found coffee did not protect the liver against those other causes of scarring.
The same study found coffee drinkers had healthier results on blood tests used to measure liver function, whether or not they were heavy alcohol users. Coffee's effect on reducing liver enzymes in the blood was more apparent among the heavy drinkers in the study.
Cirrhosis from all causes kills more than 27,000 Americans a year and sends nearly 400,000 to the hospital.
The findings, published in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine, build on reports that coffee also may reduce the risk of liver cancer.
The data came from members of a Northern California health plan. Their coffee consumption was noted only at the beginning of the study, which the researchers admitted was a limitation. They were followed for an average of 14 years.
The researchers found no reduced risk of cirrhosis for tea drinkers. Tea has less caffeine than coffee and there were fewer heavy tea drinkers in the study, so if caffeine is the protective ingredient, an effect may not have shown up for tea in the study, Klatsky said.
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Starbucks!
A pot a day keeps the doctor away...
I wonder if Starbucks paid for this study?
screw Starbucks. Exxon rocks...They have great coffee and my Bill Miller mug refill costs only 85 cents with tax, plus the frequent guzzler card where every 4th cup is free...
Irish coffee!!
Exxon??? Leave it to a Texan to get his coffee from an oil company!
I don't buy this. My father was a heavy drinker of both Canadian Club and Folger's. By the age of 49, his cirrhosis was so bad that only 23% of his liver still functioned.
"The way to avoid getting ill is not to drink a lot of coffee, but to cut down on the drinking" of alcohol, he said.
a 16-ounce Starbucks grande has nearly three times as much caffeine as a No-Doz
Does Folger's really count as coffee after the freeze-dried process and everything?
That Bengal Trader coffee is good. The Exxon I visit frequently is privately owned, is not a Tiger Tote. They have the JavaRama coffee, which is also quite good. But the best coffee I get in the mornings is Community Coffee. The only place I know of that you can get it already brewed is the J's store on Main Street in Schertz. I go out of my way to get that stuff, it is yummy. And very cheap. The large cup is 95 cents!
Considering the le of this thread and who started it, I thought it was going to be about advocating for pumping your prostate daily for healthy living.
So, if drinking alchol, drinking coffee, and masturbating make you live longer, does that mean SequSpur is immortal?
Considering the le of this thread and who started it, I thought it was going to be about advocating for pumping your prostate daily for healthy living.
Dark Magic from the Tiger is dddddddddddddddddda bomb.
(No, caffeine dddddddddoesn't make me jittttttttery... WWWWWWWhy do you askkkk?
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