coffee and diabetes
Does Coffee Help to Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes?
Today, over 110 million North Americans consume coffee. But how much is too much, and can it decrease the risk of type 2 diabetes or slow down aging??
Researchers report that those who drank three to four cups of decaffeinated coffee per day had a 33 per cent decreased risk of type 2 diabetes, compared to non-coffee drinkers. The same amount of tea dropped the risk of type 2 diabetes by 20%.
Dr. Rob M. van Dam, of the Harvard School of Public Health, analyzed the results of 15 studies of coffee and type 2 diabetes involving 193,000 people in the U.S. and Europe. He reported that those who drank the most coffee, four to six cups daily, had a 28% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who drank the least coffee. All told there are now over 20 studies that show drinking coffee helps to decrease the risk of type 2 diabetes.
“Coffee is a major source of caffeine, which has been shown to acutely reduce sensitivity to insulin, but also has potentially beneficial effects. We prospectively investigated the association between coffee consumption and risk of clinical type 2 diabetes..”
“..Coffee consumption was associated with a substantially lower risk of clinical type 2 diabetes.”
A Swedish study tracked insulin resistance, the ease at which insulin can enter cells to control the level of blood sugar when milk, cream or sugar was added to coffee. They discovered that insulin had a more difficult time entering cells when sugar was added, but milk and cream had no effect on the entry of insulin. Studies show that only 35% of people drink coffee black.
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