Title
Coffee is Healthful: It Protects against Radiobiological Damage and Reduces Risks of Diabetes Type 2, Cancers and Alzheimer’s Disease
Authors
P. C. Kesavana and G. J. Sharma*b
aM.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India.
bDepartment of Life Sciences, Manipur University, Imphal, India.
*Corresponding author E-mail address: gjs1951@rediffmail.com (G. J. Sharma)
Article History
Publication details: Received: 13th April 2021; Revised: 28th June 2021; Accepted: 29th June 2021; Published: 16th July 2021
Cite this article
Kesavan P. C.; Sharma G. J. Coffee is Healthful: It Protects against Radiobiological Damage and Reduces Risks of Diabetes Type 2, Cancers and Alzheimer’s Disease. Green Rep., 2021, 2(5), 22-27
Abstract
It is inexplicably strange, but true even today that ignorance, prejudice and credulity overwhelmingly prevail upon science-derived knowledge in many spheres of our day-to-day lives. That indeed has unfortunately been the case with coffee drinking. While hundreds of peer-reviewed original scientific papers unequivocally demonstrate that coffee with hundreds of anti-oxidant ingredients is healthful, the widely circulated fallacy is that it is harmful and carcinogenic. The purpose of this article is to illustrate with scientific literature that contrary to false notions, coffee drinking reduces the risk of incidence of several kinds of cancers, diabetes type 2 and a few neurological disorders occurring in the elderly people. More importantly, scientific studies have revealed possible physicochemical and biochemical mechanisms underlying the observed healthful effects of coffee.
Keywords
Coffee; caffeine; genotoxins; free radicals; diabetes type 2; cancers; Alzheimer’s disease
