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A Finnish study that was conducted several years ago linked a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes with increased coffee consumption. It showed that people who drank 3-4 cups of cups a day had a 30% lower risk, while those women who drank 10 cups had a 79% reduction in risk. This study was reported in 2004, and the results of the study were similar to the conclusions of a recently-published study from researchers at UC San Diego that has been going on for the past 8 years.
The UCSD study said that their testing showed that current or past drinkers of caffeinated coffee had a 60% diabetes risk reduction, while those who never drank coffee did not. Apparently, not enough of the participants were decaf-only drinkers, so no conclusions could be made about them. The scientists do not think it is the caffeine that plays the crucial role in the risk-lowering, but that it is due to other compounds in the coffee.
The important thing to note from this study, according to the researchers, is that "people with diabetes and those at risk for developing diabetes have enough to worry about" and that coffee isn't one of those things.
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10-26-2006 @7:31PM Dr. Electro said... While I know that there are other factors involved in contracting type 2 diabetes, this study points up the fact that nearly all of us who were exposed to Agent orange in Viet Nam contracted the disease because of it. I have been a heavy coffee drinker all my life and it didn't help me to avoid diabetes.
So those of you who lead more normal lives than Viet Nam veterans have, keep drinking that coffee. Type 2 diabetes is not a picnic. Do whatever it takes to avoid it.
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10-26-2006 @10:28PM Villarreal said... While drinking as much as 10 cups of coffee a day reduces diabetes risk by 79%, wouldn't drinking that much coffee causes you other problems as concerning as diabetes?
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