Prevent Prostate Cancer? Drink Coffee, Lots of It
Prostate cancer -- and the avoidance of it -- has become a very confusing, frustrating experience for most men. Have a prostate specific antigen (PSA). Don't have a PSA. Have a biopsy if something is found. Don't have a biopsy. What's a guy to do? Talk to your urologist probably, but a new study says it may all just be solved with coffee. The study has found that three to four cups of java a day is associated with a lower risk of prostate cancer recurrence and progression, according to newswise.com. Researchers studied whether the bioactive compounds in coffee and tea may prevent prostate cancer recurrence and delay progression of the disease and found that "men who drank four or more cups of coffee per day experienced a 59 percent reduced risk of prostate cancer recurrence and/or progression as compared to those who drank only one or fewer cups per week," newswise.com reports. But before you get too excited, the study found no link between drinking mor...