Coffee and Pancreatic Cancer

Professor Brian MacMahon of Harvard School of Public Health reports in the New England Journal of Medicine, in 1981 (304, pp. 630-3) on coffee drinking as a cause of pancreatic cancer. He did a study in the Boston area of people who did and did not drink coffee. He showed that drinking 3 cups of coffee a day would increase the risk of contracting pancreatic cancer by 2.7 times. He felt that coffee drinking was the cause of 50% of all cases of pancreatic cancer.

Dr. Tim Spencer of Bartholomew's Hospital in London, reports similar findings in the Aug. 29, 1981 issue of Lancet. Before World War II in England there was not much coffee drinking. The English then drank tea. Spencer checked the importation of coffee into England and found in the period of 1948 to 1973 coffee imports increased by 120%. The same time period showed a 50% increase in pancreatic cancer. --Well Being Journal, July/August 2004.

Suzanne

Agatha Thrash published a helpful booklet in 1991:

Poison with a capital C - details the effects of methylxanthines, theobromine -- fibroids, osteoporosis... from coffee, caffeine, brown drinks & chocolate.

Inexpensive literature and very sound. Agatha & Calvin Thrash were diligent to keep the health message pure and accessible.

Wouldnt large amounts of distilled water over an extended period of time affect your salt balance negatively? Too little salt is lethal in a more acute way than is too much of it.

Brown drinks? Whats included under that?

After indulging for a short period I gave it up and now enjoy my Postum and herb teas.

Suzanne [/color] [/quote]

Are you still able to get Postum? I thought it was not being produced anymore as of late 2007.

Prune Juice.

Oh, I see... :\

Kidding aside, brown drinks may refer to sodas (colas).

Or Guinness.

I am not aware that "Guinness" had any caffeine. The ingredients being; water, barley, hops, brewer's yeast. Barley is roasted and that is what gives the stout the dark color.