I saw the news item on the website about a link to Oral cancer and coffee. Does that mean we now shouldn't be drinking coffee? I've given up my evening glass of wine, and I can't enjoy the foods that I used to eat, so I really hate to think that I can't drink coffee anymore.

It says there is an inverse relationship between coffee and oral cancer.

I gave up beer and scotch, I can't eat most foods, damned if I give up my coffee!! They'll pry my cup from my cold dead hands...I love you Starbucks...

Don't toss out that mug! I've read that coffee helps fight off cancer. I've also read that scorching coffee is bad on the cancer fighting front. So the way I see it, we're fine so long as we're not scalding ourselves. Ummm - TODAY - we'll see if "future" studies refute recent ones.

I am a sad sad soul... I don't drink coffee, tea, alcohol, or eat meat or dairy.... Yet I still got oral cancer and I can't even blame HPV! :P

Just goes to show that sh** happens even to good girls (hope you have learned your lesson). Although you do do weird stuff like drink honey

An inverse correlation means that coffee is PROTECTIVE against oral cancer, not that it causes it. Coffee is full of micro bioactive ingredients that appear to be chemo protective. For those that do not read the OCF oral cancer new threads here is the link to the story.

http://oralcancernews.org/wp/is-the...nd-tea-intake-and-head-and-neck-cancers/

Thanks for clarifying that, Brian. The article was sort of confusing to me. I might not have read it as thoroughly as i should have. Guess I will keep on drinking it. When I started to get my sense of taste back, I was so excited that I could actually taste coffee again. There are so many of my favorite foods that I can't eat anymore, and I used to love a glass of wine in the evening, as well as a margarita when I went to a Mexican restaurant, so I thought "Oh, damn! I have to give up coffee, too!"

Great news! I would be such a sad sack without my morning coffee.

Coffee is good..yummm coffee...yay caffeine...yay coffee...

I will have my prophylactic cup of coffee or two or three every morning...and in the afternoon when I'm dragging (just to be sure I keep the OC away)...and some after dinner...

Maybe I'd sleep if I didn't drink so much coffee? Hummmmmmmm

Dammit now I have to start drinking coffee too? Between honey - my ensure and green tea... :oP time to be naughty!

Sandy - sleep is overrated!

hahaha! Yep, Cheryl! My thoughts exactly!

And, naughty is underrated!

Thanks Brian for spelling it out. I was really glad to see that article pop up in my Google reader set to OCF news since I start each morning by brewing a big pot of hazelnut coffee then pouring a can of Jevity 1.5 into a coffee mug, top it off with coffee and syringe it down my tube. I do two cans of Jevity this way. I then crush my Vitamin D pills and open the CQ-10 capsules (recommended by both my cardio and endo doctors) into the mug and add coffee which actually dissolves them so they go right down the tube. Because almost all the Vitamin D and CQ-10 formulations come only in soft-gels which I can not use, (even the prescription Vitamin D), and since water makes the pills and powders clump together into a sticky goo that won't go down my tube without clogging it, Coffee has been the only way to get these two supplements down. Hmmn - Starbucks as a CCC affiliate? Maybe a little chemo cappuccino corner?
Charm