Fill Mine to the Rim

I am sure that I have shared with all of you just how much I love a good cup of coffee in the morning.  My shift starts at 6am, and without a good, robust cup of coffee, I would definitely be in trouble! 

Many times the media tries to make us feel guilty about enjoying that enticing and invigorating morning favorite. That is, until I read an article published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.  

Researchers from Lund University and Malmo University in Sweden say that depending on a particular variant of gene CYP1A2 a woman has, drinking two or three cups of coffee a day may reduce your risk of getting breast cancer or delay the onset of breast cancer. The benefits of drinking coffee vary depending upon which variant of the gene women have.

Of the women in the study group, half had a gene variant called A/A, and the rest of the women either had an A/C or C/C variant. Women who had one of the C variants and drank at least three cups of coffee a day had a significantly lower risk of breast cancer--- 2/3 the risk of women who had the A/A variant and drank the same amount of coffee.  

Women with the A/A variant who drank at least two cups of coffee a day seemed to delay their initial onset of breast cancer by about ten years. This, of course, was different if they had received hormone replacement therapy.

The lead author, Erika Bageman, and her co-researchers stressed that these results need to be further researched and analyzed.

Although it is much too early to start changing our coffee consumption habits based upon this one study, maybe we can stop feeling quite so guilty about refilling our cup one more time. 

Now if they could find some positive benefits of those chips...