Drink Up—Coffee Probably Won't Give You Cancer
But the World Health Organization says you may want to let it cool down a bit.
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It’s a good day for coffee drinkers and for the $77 billion global industry that keeps you wired. The world’s top authority on cancer risk declared Wednesday that there’s no evidence to link drinking coffee to increased risk of cancer.
But hold onto the creamer, because the World Health Organization’s cancer research body did raise some broader concerns about the consumption of hot beverages. There’s limited evidence that beverages hotter than 65 degrees Celsius (149 degrees Fahrenheit) probably pose some cancer risk.