Thursday, June 9, 2011

Coffee, Tea, Soft Drinks: Can They Cause Colorectal Cancer?

A variety of studies have been done in recent years trying to determine if drinking a lot of coffee, tea or soft drinks increases your risk of getting cancer of the colon.

But it appears that part of the question has been put to rest - at least for a while. The news is good for coffee and tea drinkers, and uncertain for those who love sugary sodas.

Investigators from the Harvard School of Public Health, led by Dr. Xuehong Zhang, examined more than a dozen separate studies in reaching their conclusions. The studies were conducted in North America and Europe.

The study pooled data on more than 730,000 people scattered around the world, covering between six and twenty years. Colon cancer was eventually detected in

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