It found that those who drank the equivalent of ten 8-ounce glasses of fluids a day had half the bladder cancer risk of men who drank fewer than the equivalent of six glasses a day. The study found that water, coffee and alcohol beverages all appear to have a positive effect. The study, headed by a doctor at the National Cancer of Japan, followed 19,000 healthy, non-smoking men. The results showed that daily consumption of alcohol had the strongest effect in preventing cancer. On the other hand, consuming over four drinks per day increased the likelihood of getting cancer.
Moderation is the key.
Those who drank were found to be less likely to suffer this serious disease than were abstainers. These findings may be especially important because there is currently no known way to prevent the disease and no known therapy to reduce the permanent blindness it causes. And AMD is expected to increase as the population ages. More research is needed to confirm and clarify these very encouraging findings in other samples. While the most positive results were found at higher levels of consumption, the effect of different drinking levels needs to be examined in detail.