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Drinking More Coffee May Undo Liver Damage From Booze

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schwit1 writes: Drinking more coffee might help reduce the kind of liver damage that's associated with overindulging in food and alcohol, a review of existing studies suggests. Researchers analyzed data from nine previously published studies with a total of more than 430,000 participants and found that drinking two additional cups of coffee a day was linked to a 44% lower risk of developing liver cirrhosis.pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Drinking+More+Coffee+May+Undo+Liver+Damage+From+Booze%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F1LD97MA"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F16%2F02%2F22%2F2319240%2Fdrinking-more-coffee-may-undo-liver-damage-from-booze%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/22/2319240/drinking-more-coffee-may-undo-liver-damage-from-booze?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/02/22/2319240/drinking-more-coffee-may-undo-liver-damage-from-booze?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/zDfrLmoMLWg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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