Coffee no longer comes with cancer warning—it may actually prevent it

[Deleted]

Cancer is the meme of the medical world.

Alcohol and tobacco? Cancer.
Eating an apple a day? Cancer.
Taking a left turn without using the turn signal? Cancer.
Visiting your grandmother every month? Ultra cancer.

Eh.

[Mitters]

There are cancer warnings on coffee? The only warning it should need is ''Remember to brush your teeth twice a day or let your teeth become yellower than the sun''

[Powerogue]

I love this. 100% True.

If you hadn't seen already (edit: someone beat me to it):

[video=youtube;0Rnq1NpHdmw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rnq1NpHdmw[video]

He makes a very strong point that not peer-reviewing studies is a serious problem. It seems like the only studies that get the sort of extreme scrutiny needed to squeeze truth out of "maybe"'s only happen when people have some objection to the science's conclusion, like with evolution. It's only gotten as far as it has because people have tried so hard to disprove it, and failed. You don't get that sort of scrutiny for something like "lab mice fed chocolate doesn't seem to increase or decrease the probability of developing cancer."

[May90]

I wonder how they even come to conclusion that something "might cause cancer". Perhaps they do it like this?
1. Ask 1,000 people with cancer whether they drink coffee.
2. Learn that 30% of them do.
3. Confuse correlation with causation and make a verdict that coffee might cause cancer.

[Hotmail]

There are cancer warnings on coffee? The only warning it should need is ''Remember to brush your teeth twice a day or let your teeth become yellower than the sun''

Brushing your teeth right after drinking coffee will damage the enamel in the long run since it is a highly acidic drink. It's part of why I don't drink much of it anymore.

[Stormspark]

I don't trust anyone that ever said EGGS are bad.

[Forogil]

Wasn't there a thread earlier about hot things causing cancer?

Same study:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hot-drinks-...r-risk-1565608

However, this goes under the general heading of: if it is painful it might be bad for you.

[Deleted]

Honestly everything has been claimed to cause cancer so far. Up to a point where ordinary person just doesn't care anymore.

Reading causes eye cancer.

[Forogil]

He makes a very strong point that not peer-reviewing studies is a serious problem.

Peer-reviewing doesn't help 95% is normally significant enough for them.

That means that out of 20 studies 1 will by chance find an incorrect and shocking result. Peer-reviewers cannot find any fault, and that study will be seen in TV - the other 19 might not be published.
And then that is combined with study-goal-posting, you make a study to find if coffee cause cancer - you don't see any real evidence, and then switch to investigating if it isn't all but just: hot, cold, arabica beans, or the other beans, coffee with milk, espresso, latte, machiato, strong coffee, turkisk coffee, americano, frapucinno, ice coffee, kopi luwak, ...

[Zethras]

For fucks sake, our own planet gives us cancer, what do you think all those naturally occurring radioactive elements beneath our feet are doing?
Not to mention the figuratively literal giant ball of nuclear fusion right above our heads?

[dextersmith]

I could've been preventing cancer all this time?

Is bacon good for you yet?

[Yvaelle]

I could've been preventing cancer all this time?

Is bacon good for you yet?

Bacon is still bad for you, but not baconing is worse for you (because then you are living your life wrong).

The key is to bacon in moderation.

[Jotaux]

I eat bacon every day for breakfast, in a sandwich along with an egg and cheddar cheese on a sourdough english muffin.

[Vargulf the Happy Husky]

sweet, check coffee off the list!

now if i can just get them to lay off chewing tobacco and alcohol...

and pot...

and meat...

[ComputerNerd]

Foodstuff or drink is good for you, bad for you, good for you, bad for you, etc.
Isn't this how it goes.

[Mitters]

Brushing your teeth right after drinking coffee will damage the enamel in the long run since it is a highly acidic drink. It's part of why I don't drink much of it anymore.

Obviously not right after but you would be surprised how many people just don't brush at all, not even once per day.

[Ghostpanther]

Good. Means all these decades of me drinking coffee will not cause me to die from cancer.

[TwoNineMarine]

All the things cause and do not cause cancer.

[Aggrophobic]

Seems like every month there's a new study out where something causes cancer. Coffee was one such product, now scientists have changed their minds, not only that some think it may prevent cancer.

Is there any wonder why the average Joe doesn't trust science?






http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/...ly-prevent-it/


Despite brimming data[3]*showing*that drinking coffee[4] can be good for
your health, there has been a lingering black stain on the popular
drink’s reputation—the 1991 assessment by the World Health Organization
that classified coffee as a possible carcinogen. Today, that stain got
scrubbed away.

In a Wednesday announcement[5] and an accompanying article in the journal
The Lancet Oncology[6], the WHO reversed that 1991 classification,
striking coffee from the Group 2b[7]*list of foods and beverages that are
“possibly carcinogenic to humans.” That initial classification was based
on “limited evidence of an association with cancer of the urinary bladder
from case-control studies, and inadequate evidence of carcinogenicity in
experimental animals.” According to 23 health experts who met in May to
review more than 1,000 new and old human and animal studies on coffee,
that limited evidence didn’t stand up. The experts concluded that coffee
is a Group 3 agent, which is “not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity
to humans.”

Moreover, amid their review, the experts also noted that several studies
provided evidence that coffee drinking may reduce the risk of cancers of
the liver and uterine endometrium. For more than 20 other types of
cancers, the effect of coffee drinking was inconclusive, the experts
found.

"Trust science"? I'm thinking that average Joe does not understand science.
Average Joe needs a better education.

[Zcion999]

For zero carb/all meat lifestyle drink choices are water or what's called bulletproof coffee, so no surprise from me that coffee is actually good for you. I only drink water but I'm very supportive of people drinking coffee.

What? "Supportive of people drinking coffee" ? So what else normal every day thing do I have your full support on ? Getting dressed in the morning ?