Be happy for you lovers of tea and coffee drinks. Not only serves to add energy in the body, regular consumption of tea and coffee are known to prevent cancer, especially brain cancer.
Scientists have long found evidence that coffee or tea can boost one’s stamina. However, recent research shows that eating regular two types of the most popular drinks in this world also can protect you from brain cancer that often affect adults.
Although only drink half a cup of coffee or tea per day, it can reduce the risk of brain cancer by 34 percent. Dominique S. Michaud of the Faculty of Public Health, Brown University in Providence, United States, is chairman of an international team report their findings in the November issue of the journal American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The idea that coffee and tea’s health benefits, particularly as anticancer for regular drinkers based on previous studies which have shown that the lovers are two drinks can also avoid the risk for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Further study further discusses the possibility that coffee and tea also can prevent brain cancer.
Especially the type of glioma, a cancer that attacks the central nervous system originating from the brain and or spinal cord. Gliomas, including brain cancer causes about 80 percent of cases of malignant brain cancer in adults. However, the results of this study itself has not been able to prove that the two drinks that provide protection against cancer. “It’s all temporary,” said Michaud.
“This study should not be a reason for anyone to alter their intake of coffee or tea,” he said as quoted by healthday.com. Even if coffee and tea have a direct effect on risk of glioma, it looks like the effect will be small. Brain cancer in general are rare in the world.
In Europe for example, the annual incidence rate is estimated at between four to six cases per 100,000 women, and six to eight cases for every 100,000 men. Overall, the likelihood someone will develop brain cancer in their lifetime is less than 1 percent.
But Michaud says, if the intake of coffee and tea which was higher to protect against gliomas, it will be able to give insight to the investigators about the cause of the cancer. “Currently we do not know much about what causes brain cancer,” he said.
The study itself evaluates health data of more than 410,000 men and women aged between 25 and 70 years drawn from the European Prospective Investigation research into Cancer and Nutrition, which originated from France, Holland, Italy, Spain, Britain, Greece, Denmark, Norway, Sweden , and Germany.
The participants were recruited between 1991 and 2000 and continuously monitored for 8.5 years. In a study conducted a survey that is used as a measure of food, including tea and coffee consumption each study participant. They were also asked to complete questionnaires about medical history, diet, exercise habits, smoking and other lifestyle factors.
In that time, 343 new cases diagnosed gliomas. Also, 245 new cases of meningioma, other types of cancer that affects the tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. Overall, consumption of decaffeinated coffee was found very low. While the usual coffee and tea drinking patterns vary widely from one country to another. For example, Denmark (the largest consumer of coffee) drinking an average of almost 3.5 cups per day.
Or Italian (the lowest consumer) average less than half a cup a day. The highest consumption of tea made by participants from the UK and the lowest from Spain. The addition of beverage consumption on the incidence of brain cancer were related to each other. The research team found that drinking 100 ml (or about 0.4 cups) per day or more may reduce risk of glioma by 34 percent.
In addition, also concluded that the protective effect of these two drinks seemed a little stronger against a man and seems to apply only to gliomas. According to Michaud, is not clear why there was no evidence of dose-response relationship between coffee and tea consumption with risk of glioma, which is generally considered a strong sign of a possible causal relationship.
However, perhaps it relates to the difficulty in precisely measuring the intake of coffee and tea from the study participants, which depends on the report itself. “It is biologically plausible that coffee or tea and may affect the risk of glioma,” he said. A recent laboratory study, for example, found that caffeine seemed to slow the growth of a type of glioma is glioblastoma.
In addition, both coffee and tea contain antioxidants that help protect body cells from damage that can cause cancer and other diseases. However, it could also coffee and tea lovers it has other characteristics that may influence susceptibility to glioma.
But as far as the characteristics that have not been revealed, it causes brain cancer is also not yet known. Researchers know there are some risk factors. Those who undergo radiation therapy most frequently-radiation to the head to treat other cancer types have a high risk of brain tumors in the future. Genetic Pradisposisi apparently plays a role in a few cases of brain tumors. However, evidence of food or environmental factors, such as exposure to chemicals in the workplace so far inconclusive. Michaud said, still need some research to confirm that there is a relationship between coffee and tea consumption with risk of glioma and to determine the underlying reasons.
Dr. Jonathan Friedman, Chief of the Texas Brain and Spine Institute at Texas A & M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Bryan, Texas, United States, described the findings as “surprising”.
“However, please note, the mechanism of why coffee may be protective (a disease) is really unclear,” he explained. “While the benefits of caffeine itself may be important (for body), but several other common components in a coffee or tea may also be relevant (the cause), such as natural antioxidants,” he said.
“However, further research would be needed to confirm these findings and to identify how the basis of the correlation relationship,” Friedman happen outside. Dr. John S. Yu, Director of the Brain Tumor Center of Excellence at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, United States, called the discovery remarkable. “If we have a cure for various diseases that can reduce the risk of suffering about 34 percent, would be considered a great medicine,” he said.

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