Every\u00a0child knows that anything yummy, curious or at least remotely exciting is detrimental to one\u2019s health. There is a proverbial saying that is said to belong to Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde or Alexander Woollcott, that is\u00a0worded as follows: \u201cAll the\u00a0things\u00a0I really like to do are either immoral,\u00a0illegal, or fattening.\u201d<\/p>\n
This very saying has solid\u00a0reasoning, if we think about it in terms of the second law of thermodynamics. However, life is full of curiosities, and each rule has its exceptions, mostly supplied by science.<\/p>\n
How about some intriguing examples? Of course, an addictive love for coffee is bound to ruin your health sooner or later (as any good doctor would say), but at the same time, coffee aficionados run a lower risk of melanoma, as is proven by recent medical research<\/a> conducted in the United States; the results were published in the prominent Journal of the National Cancer Institute.<\/p>\n The truth is quite simple: 4+ cups of coffee consumed daily lowers the risk of getting a malignant tumor by 20%. Less coffee consumed means a\u00a0higher\u00a0percentage, and keep in mind\u00a0that decaf would not work, as there is no evident correlation for decaf.<\/p>\n Of course, 20% is not that much, but it is not that bad, considering that the melanoma death toll claims as many\u00a0as fifty\u00a0thousand people each year, and the risk continues to increase year by year. There are clearly defined factors causing\u00a0the deaths, with the most evident of them being prolonged exposure to active sunlight and genetic predisposition.<\/p>\n In fact, the correlation between coffee and a lower risk of skin cancer was cited in early scientific papers published in Norway and Italy. However, those stats were not verifiable enough to assess the degree of relevance.<\/p>\n The new research is based on a very extensive sample of the population consisting of almost half a million<\/strong>\u00a0elderly white Americans studied over\u00a0a decade. The researchers considered other significant factors, including sex, age, physical activity, obesity, pernicious habits, climate, etc.<\/p>\n Good news for coffee drinkers: 4 cups of #coffee<\/a> a day linked to 20% reduced melanoma risk http:\/\/t.co\/jpl9eHcc3j<\/a>\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/8A4Xlp4Nlf<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Medical News Today (@mnt) January 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n