17.06.2016
Coffee doesn't cause cancer, according to a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
Writing in The Lancet, the WHO removed coffee from the Group 2b list of foods that are "carcinogenic to humans". But the temperature of coffee may have an impact on cancer.
"We found no conclusive evidence for a carcinogenic effect of drinking coffee," the WHO wrote.
The WHO first classified coffee as potentially carcinogenic 25 years ago, saying that it may cause bladder cancer. But after reviewing more than 1000 studies on the link between coffee and cancer, it concluded that there "was inadequate evidence for the carcinogenicity of coffee drinking overall".
Ref: Wired.co.uk 16/06/2016