1.2 million people die of liver cancer each year in the world. Two cups of coffee a day will reduce the number of deaths due to liver cancer by hundreds of thousands

A number of studies in the past few years have shown that drinking coffee on a regular basis can bring many health benefits.

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), the head of the four major medical journals, has also published a review paper entitled: Coffee, Caffeine, and Health.

Coffee can reduce the incidence of liver cancer, so how will increasing coffee consumption affect the global incidence and mortality of liver cancer?

In August 2020, multiple Australian research institutions collaborated to publish a research paper titled: Estimates of the global reduction in liver disease-related mortality with increased coffee consumption: an analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Dataset in Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.

The paper analyzed the global burden of disease data set and showed that as coffee intake increases, liver cancer-related death rates decrease globally.

Specifically, if everyone in the world drinks at least two cups of coffee a day, the number of deaths due to liver cancer in the world will be reduced by more than 450,000.

The amount of coffee consumed per person per day in all regions of the world

From the statistical data, in Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand, each person consumes more than 2 cups of coffee per day.

Researchers found through statistical data that drinking two or three cups of coffee a day can reduce a person's risk of liver cancer by 38%, and the risk of liver cancer death by 46%.

Next, the researchers wanted to know what would happen if everyone in the world started drinking two or more cups of coffee a day.

Researchers studied the data in the "2016 Global Burden of Disease" data set and extracted statistics related to liver cancer.

The researchers then searched for statistics on drinking coffee and added these two sets of data to a model that showed the link between drinking coffee and reducing liver cancer.

Therefore, the research team believes that the government and health institutions should start to encourage coffee consumption in order to reduce the incidence and mortality of liver cancer.

As we all know, China is a major liver cancer country.

Coincidentally, on January 8, 2020, the team of Academician Gu Dongfeng from Fuwai Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (currently acting vice president of Southern University of Science and Technology) published a paper in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.

These two studies show that whether it is coffee, which is more preferred by Westerners, or tea, which is more preferred by Chinese, drinking in moderation is beneficial to health and longevity.