Monday, June 12, 2006

GREAT NEWS FOR A MONDAY

Okay, okay, Monday is usually a bad news day, but did you catch this article?For many men, a finding by Oregon researchers sounds too good to be true: an ingredient in beer seems to help prevent prostate cancer, at least in lab experiments. The trouble is you'd theoretically have to drink about 17 beers a day for any potential benefit. And no one's advising that. Researchers at Oregon State University say that the compound xanthohumol, found in hops, inhibits a protein in the cells along the surface of the prostate gland. The protein acts like a switch that turns on a variety cancers, including prostate cancer.

Okay, well, if you caught that one, maybe you saw this little beauty from Yahoo News, by way of Kaiser Permanente Could Irish coffee be the perfect drink? Researchers reported on Monday that drinking coffee cuts the risk of cirrhosis of the liver from alcohol -- by 22 percent per cup each day -- but they stopped short of saying doctors should prescribe coffee for that reason. The report from the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in Oakland, California, was based on a look at data from 125,580 people

Damn, Screw that "apple a day" claptrap. Off to the nearest Liquor store, one of them 18 packs, then a quick trip to Starbucks for 5 venti Espressos. The true way to live forever!!!!!!! Who says there's never any good news anymore?

1 Comments:

At 8:57 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

There was an article a few weeks ago in the LAT stating that pot smoking does not cause lung cancer.

 

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