Coffee and Health

Contents: The chemistry of coffee; Decaffeination of coffee; Chemistry of instant coffee; Correlates of coffee consumption; Coffee mutagenesis - experimental approaches (Mutagens in coffee: background and present knowledge of mutagens/carcinogens produced by pyrolysis... Preliminary findings of a carcinogen bioassay of coffee in mice... Risk evaluation of coffee based on in vitro and in vivo mutagenicity testing... Long term carcinogenicity studies on caffeine, instant coffee, and methylglyoxal in rats); Coffee and human carcinogenesis (Coffee and cancer of the pancreas... Control of cigarette smoking in evaluating the association of coffee drinking and bladder cancer... Protective effects of coffee constituents on carcinogenesis... Coffee consumption and ovarian cancer... Epidemiologic studies of coffee and breast disease... Coffee and methylxanthine in benign and malignant breast diseases...Breast cancer and coffee drinking... Caffeine and benign breast disease); Physiological and behavioral effects (Coffee, CHD, and mortality... Chronic experimental animal studies with coffee).