Anyone who likes to drink a lot of coffee might be interested in a Swedish study result.
Coffee therefore lowers the risk of cancer, but it can also shrink the breast.
In the morning, at noon and another one in the afternoon: the cup of coffee is an integral part of the lives of so many people. Some drink it out of habit, others because of the taste and everyone is happy about its stimulating effect.
Are you also addicted to the caffeinated drink?
Then you will be interested in a report by Swedish researchers. They examined how coffee consumption, cancer risk and breast size are related.
"Drinking coffee can have a major impact on breast size,"
the portal
thelocal.se quoted
Helena Jernström, lecturer in experimental oncology at Lund University in Sweden.
One of the most surprising results of the 2008 study under her leadership in the British Journal of Cancer: Smaller breasts mean less breast cancer, and coffee means smaller breasts.
Coffee can shrink breasts - and lower the risk of breast cancer
At the time, the researchers' focus was on the relationship between breast size and cancer risk. Among other things, they found a gene that reduces the risk of cancer. The researchers were also able to prove that the discovered genotype CYP1A2 * 1F in combination with coffee consumption has an impact on breast size and the risk of cancer in young women. They examined healthy study participants who were not yet through menopause.
According to the researchers, those who drank more than three cups of coffee a day had a smaller breast size - but only in those who carried the special C-gene variant
.
“The women with one of the C variants, who had drunk at least three cups of coffee a day, developed breast cancer significantly less often than women with the A / A variant with the same amount of coffee consumption.
Their cancer risk was only two thirds as high as that of other women, ”the portal
science20.com
quotes
oncologist Jernström.
Half of the women carried a gene variant called A / A, the others either A / C or C / C, it said.
A total of 269 Swedish women from families with a high risk of breast cancer had volunteered in the study between 1996 and 2006.
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