Drinking cups of tea and coffee 'can prevent diabetes' (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Tea and coffee drinkers have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a large body of evidence shows.

And the protection may not be down to caffeine since decaf coffee has the greatest effect, say researchers in Archives of Internal Medicine.

They looked at 18 separate studies involving nearly 500,000 people.

This analysis revealed that people who drink three or four cups of coffee or tea a day cut their risk by a fifth or more, say researchers.

The same amount of decaffeinated coffee had an even bigger effect, lowering risk by a third.
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Now, what about cocoa? :D

[sasquatch]

1. I think that's some of the few reasons I don't have diabetes

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Didn't work for me. n/t

[old mark]

3. Not in my case, it doesn't - I love both tea and coffee, have type II

diabetes anyway.


mark

[TexasProgresive]

4. Make that 3 type II coffee drinkers -Too bad didn't work for me.

[trotsky]

5. Here's what I wonder.

Did they separate out people who put sugar in their coffee or tea?

Because it could be as simple as people who are drinking black coffee or unsweetened tea are therefore NOT drinking some other beverage like pop or juice, which contain way more sugar than we need and can lead to Type II.

[Ilsa]

6. I suspect we'd have to dig into the original research article to determine

if the subjects were adding anything to their drink, even half-and-half.

[trotsky]

7. Since it was a meta-study, it could get very complicated indeed. n/t

[HuckleB]

8. Yes, there are factors we don't know.

But I'll always take any study that says, "Coffee is good," to heart!

;)