Coffee Reduces Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes
A study published in the November issue of Diabetes Care further supports previous findings that there is “a striking protective effect of caffeinated coffee was found to reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by as much as 60%.
After adjusting for other known diabetes risk factors, the researchers concluded that both past and current drinkers of caffeinated coffee had about a 60% reduction in diabetes risk, compared with study participants who never drank coffee.
A similar reduction in risk was seen among the roughly one-third of study participants with impaired glucose tolerance.
They say that this protective effect may probably be due to components in coffee other than caffeine. In fact, an earlier published 11-year prospective study of post-menopausal women suggests that decaffeinated coffee seemed to be even more effective in reducing diabetes risks.
So what is it in coffee that imparts this benefit? Still unidentified.
And until it’s known, these data do not give you the permission to drink coffee as a strategy (or excuse?) for lowering the risk of diabetes.
Maybe not permission, but as an avid coffee drinker, I’m loving all this recent research suggesting benefits, though that thing about decaffeinated coffee is a bit of a downer.
Hi Pamela! Thanks for dropping a note!
I’m a coffee junkie too, as I’ve admitted several times in this blog, and like you, I am delighted each and every time I see a “proof” that coffee is not that evil
However, people who have ailments should not expect much… Or not yet, until further studies are done.