Coffee, Tea Linked to Lower Brain Cancer Risk

I think that the following report is probably very true.  There have been a lot of similar scientific articles/studies recently, stating the same thing.  But I think that the one thing that is not mentioned is that using milk and sugar in the tea or coffee is obviously a bad thing!  Milk is almost always pasteurized, and obviously sugar is something you need to avoid anyway.

Researchers Say Antioxidants in Coffee and Tea May Explain Possible Reduction in Risk

Oct. 22, 2010 -- Drinking about a half cup or more of coffee or tea per day is associated with a 34% reduction in the risk for glioma, a type of brain tumor, researchers report.

Researchers led by Dominique Michaud, DSc, an investigator at Brown University, and colleagues analyzed data from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition longitudinal study, which includes more than 410,000 people from nine countries who were followed for about 8.5 years.

Participants answered questionnaires about their coffee and tea intake, as well as other dietary habits. Information about cancer diagnoses was obtained from national cancer registries and medical insurance records.

Overall, researchers found that drinking 100 mL or more of coffee or tea a day was linked to a reduced risk of glioma brain tumors. Men who were coffee and tea drinkers had a greater reduction in risk than women.

The study was not designed to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between drinking coffee or tea and developing brain or spinal cord tumors; researchers only observed a connection. The researchers say more studies are needed to validate these observations.
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