Coffee and Diabetes- In earlier days, coffee is regarded as one of the bad beverages that bring undesirable effects to one's health. But today, it is different.
There's mounting evidences that Coffee can actually protect people from acquiring diseases including depression, cancer, liver disease and Parkinson's disease. Today coffee and diabetes are also interlinked since several studies have proven that coffee can lower risk to developing diabetes.
A new study has shown that increasing your daily dose of coffee can lower your risk to Type II Diabetes. In a group of 123, 000 adults, the research revealed that consuming more than a cup for four years lessen the risk to diabetes while those that drank lesser have higher chances to have diabetes.
Dr. Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead researcher for the study said that there is a relationship between coffee and diabetes that explains its dose-response reaction.
"Basically, the more coffee, the lower the risk of diabetes," Hu stated. "People who drink three to five cups of coffee a day enjoyed a significant reduction in type 2 diabetes risk."
Hu stated that coffee and diabetes relationship is not yet well established as it is still a debate on what particular component in coffee really lowers the risk to diabetes. It could be the antioxidants or the combination of nutrients, he added.
The study that shows coffee and diabetes are interrelated was published online in Diabetologia. However, Hu said that their study still needs to prove what causes it. He stated that in a small human trial and animal experiment had shown the relationship of coffee and insulin resistance.
The research done by Hu is just one of the many experiments that correlate relation of coffee and diabetes. Hu stated that, people must still take precautions such as guarding their diet, exercising to be away from diabetes.
