Comments on: Coffee IS good for you http://www.servingbread.net/2007/12/19/coffee-is-good-for-you Thoughts, Musings, Reflections, and Ramblings of a campus minister, father, husband, and a Jesus-follower Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:51:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Topher http://www.servingbread.net/2007/12/19/coffee-is-good-for-you#comment-8901 Topher Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:20:28 +0000 http://www.servingbread.net/2007/12/19/coffee-is-good-for-you/#comment-8901 The more I read about cancer research, the more I'm convinced that scientists have no idea what causes cancer and what prevents it... All they are relying on are statistical relations between items, which is great when it comes to conditions that can be accurately controlled. But when it comes to health, where there are inherently multitudes of variations in diet, exercise, and genetic conditions, any solid conclusion about the effects of drinking 2 cups of coffee a day cannot be accurate. While trends can be found based on the data, these trends can also be based totally on unrelated coincidences, like the fact that coffee drinkers are more likely to do something else, which is the actual cause for the reduction of cancer... I'm not the biggest fan of statistical assumptions, especially when it comes to health... but I will admit that if they can back up their stats with actual scientific experiments that link elements in coffee to reduced risk of cancer, I'll buy it. I'm waiting for the report that statistically links drinking 8 cups of water a day and increased chances of colon cancer. The more I read about cancer research, the more I’m convinced that scientists have no idea what causes cancer and what prevents it… All they are relying on are statistical relations between items, which is great when it comes to conditions that can be accurately controlled.

But when it comes to health, where there are inherently multitudes of variations in diet, exercise, and genetic conditions, any solid conclusion about the effects of drinking 2 cups of coffee a day cannot be accurate. While trends can be found based on the data, these trends can also be based totally on unrelated coincidences, like the fact that coffee drinkers are more likely to do something else, which is the actual cause for the reduction of cancer…

I’m not the biggest fan of statistical assumptions, especially when it comes to health… but I will admit that if they can back up their stats with actual scientific experiments that link elements in coffee to reduced risk of cancer, I’ll buy it.

I’m waiting for the report that statistically links drinking 8 cups of water a day and increased chances of colon cancer.

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