Coffee: That most controversial of drugs/godsends.

If you've been following this HealtheMail for any time you'd be aware that I publish the many and usually conflicting reports on coffee. It's like some form of pingpong research contest. No sooner does one report get published about how coffee is good for you - than another appears saying how bad it is for you. here's the latest that goes so far as suggesting coffee prevents cancer.

Together, the studies included 2,260 people with liver cancer and nearly 240,000 people without liver cancer. Participants lived in Greece, Italy, or Japan.

Participants reported their coffee-drinking habits. The data show that coffee drinkers were 41 percent less likely to have been diagnosed with liver cancer than people who don't drink coffee. For every daily cup of coffee people drank, their odds of having been diagnosed with liver cancer dropped by 23 percent, compared with people who never drink coffee.

People who drank a lot of coffee were 55 percent less likely to have been diagnosed with liver cancer than those who didn't drink any coffee.
Here's the Report