Drinking coffee may lower our risk of developing skin cancer. In one study of more than 93,000 women, those who drank even a single daily cup of caffeinated coffee reduced their risk of developing nonmelanoma skin cancer by about 10 percent. And the more they drank-up to about 6 cups or so per day-the lower their risk. Decaf didn't seem to offer the same protection. These findings add to a body of research that suggests caffeine, in both coffee and tea, is the protective ingredient. In another study-where mice were exposed to harmful sunburn-causing ultraviolet B rays caffeine inhibited the formation of skin tumors. Caffeine basically kills precancerous and ultraviolet-damaged skin cells by blocking a protein that they need to divide.
The effects of caffeine on skin are modest, so it's not a reason to start drinking coffee-it's just "one more reason to enjoy it if you already do,"
Latte' Dah
Hmmm... so I guess maybe if I didn't drink so much coffee the skin cancer I had last year would have been worse?
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