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Coffee should be the heavy drinker's favorite drink next to alcohol as a study proves that consuming a cup of joe a day keeps liver cancer and cirrhosis away.
Liver damage and diseases have been long linked with alcohol, but researchers from the World Cancer Research Fund managed to discover that drinking coffee offsets the negative effects of drinking alcohol.
In addition, just three cups of coffee can counteract the effects even if a person drinks alcohol for up to three times a day, according to Youth Health Mag.
The new findings are based on the team's analysis of more than 30 preceding studies, at least 20,000 liver cancer cases and over eight million health records of adults.
However, further research is still needed to pinpoint the exact component of coffee that actually negates the liver damaging effects of alcohol, but the researchers said that it is definitely something in the coffee beans, which protects the human body from chronic inflammation.
More than half of the analyzed studies were conducted on lab animals, but there are still convincing evidence that were found from human trials.
Coffee has been proven to reduce inflammation since a long time ago, and the researchers linked that to its effects on the liver, according to the National Monitor.
There are other factors and things that can cause liver cancer besides alcohol such as aflatoxins, which can come from mold, dried fruit, cereals, black pepper, peanuts and others.
The new findings are a step towards battling liver cancer, which was the cause of 746,000 deaths in 2012 across the globe.
