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Coffee and cancer - an example for kimchi?

It's interesting to see how coffee used to be considered a carcinogen by the WHO. Recently, the WHO changed its position on coffee as a potential carcinogen. In fact, recent medical research seems to suggest that coffee has different protective effects. Coffee may prevent diabetes. Some research suggests that coffee may even prevent cancer. Is coffee now a health food? The debate on kimchi will probably never end. Research will show that kimchi prevents cancer while other research will prove that kimchi causes cancer. Maybe we will discover that there are too many variables for us to understand until we can link epigenetics into all this research. Then, we will know that kimchi may cause cancer in some individuals while it may prevent cancer in other individuals.