Swedish researchers at Lund University have found a clear link between the amount of coffee a woman drinks and the size of her breasts. Amazingly, drinking three or more cups of coffee each day could cause a woman’s breasts to shrink!
Oncologist Helena Jernstrom noticed that large-breasted women were more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, but found that drinking at least three cups of coffee reduced their risk of developing breast cancer. She began looking for a link and found a gene in half of all women that relates to coffee intake and breast size. The researchers also studied almost 300 women, quizzing them about their coffee intake and their bust measurements.
“Drinking coffee can have a major effect on breast size,” said Dr. Jernstrom, but said women’s breasts won’t shrink quickly. “Coffee-drinking women do not have to worry their breasts will shrink to nothing overnight,” she told the Daily Star. “They will get smaller but the breasts aren’t just going to disappear.”
In an interesting twist, although coffee was found to shrink women’s breasts, the study found that Java Joes—guys who keep their coffee cups close at hand—could become victims of gynecomastia and find their “man boobs” getting larger.
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