Coffee reduces risk of type 2 diabetes - study

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 11/1/06 | Anne Harding

[NormsRevenge]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Coffee drinkers have a substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than people who abstain from the beverage, a new study shows.

This "striking" protective effect was seen in former coffee drinkers as well, Besa Smith and co-investigators at the University of California San Diego in La Jolla report.

"The growing body of literature definitely suggests strongly...that there is something there," she told Reuters Health in an interview. Just what that something is isn't clear, but it's probably not caffeine, she said, because the effect has also been observed with decaffeinated coffee.

Smith and her colleagues investigated 910 men and women, all of whom were 50 or older and free of diabetes when the study began.

When the subjects were followed-up about 8 years later, the former and current coffee drinkers were about 60 percent less likely to have developed type 2 diabetes.

The protective effects were still seen after the researchers adjusted the data for variations in physical activity, weight, blood pressure, smoking and sex among the subjects.

Coffee's protective effect was seen even among people who had impaired glucose tolerance, an early warning sign of diabetes, at the beginning of the study.

The researchers were unable to determine how much coffee people needed to drink to produce the protective effect. But study participants were generally not heavy coffee drinkers, Smith said.

"Given the increasing prevalence of obesity, impaired glucose tolerance, and diabetes, and the fact that the majority of adults in most of the Westernized world drink coffee daily, a coffee benefit could have widespread impact," she and her colleagues conclude. "Further investigation is warranted."

SOURCE: Diabetes Care, November 2006.

[NormsRevenge]

A woman smokes a cigarette during a coffee break at the counter of a French cafe in Paris, August 25, 2006. Coffee drinkers have a substantially lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than people who abstain from the beverage, a new study shows. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

[NormsRevenge]

I don't normally drink coffee this late, but What the heck!

[Tamar1973]

[domenad]

So I can push a calzone into my face along with that coffee, right?

[muawiyah]

Right, but first remove the bread ~ get it out of there ~ that's the part that's killing you.

[Hilltop]

Why do you blame your conscious ordering of a calzone with coffee on others?

[dynachrome]

Dynachrome is safe from diabetes........for at least 100 years.

[VOA]

Coffee...my drug of choice!

[NormsRevenge]

I'll be on Kona (and Kona coffee) a week from now sucking it down. I wouldn't mind having a few trees and living there someday.

[VOA]

I'll be on Kona (and Kona coffee) a week from now sucking it down.
I wouldn't mind having a few trees and living there someday.

If you follow through...you should search out the fellow that has
developed a trelise (sp?) type system for really increasing the
yield of coffee per acre.

I only saw a little news snippet about him sometime in recent years.
He's either a doctor or dentist that works on the mainland, but
his passion is a little coffee farm he runs during multiple visits
a year to one of the Hawaiian islands.

[ecurbh]

Woohoo!

[thackney]

bump

[lawnguy]

Well I'm a Type 2, and I never developed a taste for coffee, even though I grew up with everyone in the house drinking it like water. Guess I should've tried harder!!

I do love the smell though. I think fresh brewed coffee makes a house smell great.

[NormsRevenge]

Trellises, Not a bad idea, those trees can get thick with bean and break. I'll keep an eye open for farms using trellis,, I enjoy doing the sampling at different spots ,, some great views too..

[Valin]

Java Jive - The Ink Spots

I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the jivin' and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!

I love java, sweet and hot
Whoops! Mr. Moto, I'm a coffee pot
Shoot me the pot and I'll pour me a shot
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!

Oh, slip me a slug from the wonderful mug
And I cut a rug till I'm snug in a jug
A slice of onion and a raw one, draw one.
Waiter, waiter, percolator!

I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the jivin' and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!

Boston bean, soy bean
Lima bean, string bean.
You know that I'm not keen for a bean
Unless it is a cheery coffee bean.

I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the jivin' and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!

I love java, sweet and hot
Whoops! Mr. Moto, I'm a coffee pot
Shoot me the pot and I'll pour me a shot
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!

Oh, slip me a slug from the wonderful mug
And I cut a rug till I'm snug in a jug
Drop me a nickel in my pot, Joe, Takin' it slow.
Waiter, waiter, percolator!

I love coffee, I love tea
I love the java jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and the jivin' and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup!

[Valin]

Well I'm a Type 2, and I never developed a taste for coffee


COMMIE! :-)

[BurbankKarl]

10 cups a day!

[glorgau]

It could just be that the coffee drinkers aren't drinking sodas instead.

Those are loaded with the worst kind of sugar - corn syrup.

2 great health tips:
lay off the soda pop, walk stairs intead of taking the elevator

[Cruz]

I drink alot of coffee. Thanks for the post and link.