KK, thinking of you - so glad your friend is helping out with the wake. Hope it's a positive time of remembering.
For those of you taking or about to take Tamoxifen and who also like the taste of coffee (and bearing in mind the RARE incidence of womb cancer associated with taking it) - from an article in the DM today:
"Four cups of coffee a day 'can help prevent womb cancer' - even if they're decaff. Women who drank four or more cups a day over many years were 25 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those who limited themselves to less than a cup daily.
Both caffeinated and decaffeinated varieties seemed to help ward off the disease, although tea had no effect, the 26-year study by Harvard School of Public Health in the U.S of almost 70,000 women found.
Drunk regularly, coffee may help lower levels of hormones believed to fuel the cancer, the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention reports.
Senior researcher Professor Edward Giovannucci said coffee could help against cancers associated with obesity, insulin and oestrogen, and that it had been shown to improve insulin resistance.
?Laboratory testing has found that coffee has much more antioxidants than most vegetables and fruits.?
The researchers said: ?Increasing exercise and maintaining normal body weight are probably the most important ways to prevent endometrial cancer.' They cautioned that adding cream and sugar to the beverage may cancel out the effects, as may smoking."
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I may be buying a fancy coffee machine for Christmas...