Drinking FIVE cups of coffee a day reduces your risk of developing liver cancer by up to 50%

• Drinking one cup of coffee a day lowers your liver cancer risk by 20%
• Two coffee cups reduces your risk of developing the disease by 35%
• Decaffeinated options have a protective effect but to a lesser extent
• Researchers say more research is needed to determine its health effects

Researchers from Southampton and Edinburgh universities examined data from 26 studies involving more than 2.25 million participants.

Compared with people who drank no coffee, those who drank one cup had a 20 per cent lower risk of developing the most common form of primary liver cancer, known as hepatocellular carcinoma, they found.

Results, published in the journal BMJ Open, also found that those who drank two cups had a 35 per cent reduced risk of suffering the disease, while drinking five cups cut their risk in half. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4540444/Drinking-coffee-reduces-liver-cancer-risk-50.html