What Coffee Really Does To Your Skin? From the editors of Cosmopolitan.com, good news for latte addicts.
Coffee may protect you from more than an afternoon slump — if you drink enough of it. A massive new study suggests that drinking lots of coffee could reduce your risk of developing cancerous melanoma.
In a 10.5-year study, researchers analyzed the food frequency questionnaires and health records of nearly 450,000 people involved in a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-AARP Study. By the end of the study, 2,904 people developed malignant melanoma, a serious type of skin cancer that occurs in cells that produce pigmentation, and 1,874 people developed abnormal skin cells that could lead to cancer (aka "melanoma in situ").