On: Coffee drinkers have much lower risk of bowel canc...

[jonatron]

Presumably this is because coffee in the morning quickly makes you need to use the toilet?

[dole → jonatron]

Yeah, it might not be inherently obvious, but imho flushing toxins out of the bowels faster rather than letting things sit in there for days is the beneficial effect more so than any compound in coffee doing work on carcinogens or otherwise.