Researchers at the Department of Epidemiology of the National University of Singapore suggested two oils found in coffee beans, cafestol and kahweol, have liver-protecting properties.
The research - begun in 1993 and involving more than 63,000 ethnic Chinese men and women aged 45 to 74, populations considered at higher risk of liver cancer - added to a growing body of evidence contradicting the long-held notion that coffee is bad for the health. Full story
