"...no reason to give it up"

Patients continue to tell me with pride that they have given up coffee. Gotta love coffee, however, and indeed I do. You see, what the drink does unto skin cells (see post below) it also does unto colon cells.

Japanese investigators studied the coffee-swigging habits of 96,000 people. While men showed no particular colonic benefit from coffee, women who indulged in 3 or more cups per day over the 12 year course of the study had less than half the risk of invasive colon cancer compared with their uncoffeed peers. Says Manami Inoue of the research team:

Some people cannot tolerate caffeine, so they should not force themselves to drink coffee. But for people who like it, there is no reason to give it up.