Good news for those of us who have both gluttonous habits and a caffeine addiction: According to new research, drinking two cups of coffee per day nearly halves your risk of developing liver cirrhosis, a type of liver damage you get when you consume excessive amounts of food and alcohol.
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Researchers came to this conclusion by analyzing nine previously published studies on associations between coffee consumption and cirrhosis.
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There are still a lot of unanswered questions about this study, so you probably shouldn’t take this to mean you should just drink coffee to prevent liver damage. But there have been a lot of recent studies touting the health benefits of coffee, and this may be another one of them.
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