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Information on colon and coffee
Most doctors will tell you that coffee, with its high caffeine content, is bad for a number of things. However, it has recently been proved by a research team, that in fact, coffee has a positive effect on the body. That drinking coffee helps in preventing cancer of the colon.
Very often it is not the coffee that has a harmful effect on people. Even if coffee by itself were harmless, the amount of sugar that is dumped into each cupful is sure to ensure that coffee cannot be anything but bad for you. It is often the sugar and even the cream that is added to coffee that makes the drink dangerous for our health.
The sugar in the coffee leads to diabetes and puts the drinker in danger of developing pancreas trouble too.
How coffee helps is through the phytochemicals that it contains. Scientists have been able to identify an antioxidant compound which is very powerful and which gives a boost to the phase II enzymes. It is these enzymes which guard the human body against colon cancer. Why drinking coffee acquires such importance is the fact that the enzyme which guards against colon cancer is not found in any significant amount in other types of food.
In fact, researchers in Japan have found that if you drink at least three cups a day, this provides you protection against colon cancer.
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