Coffee and Tea may reduce diabetes case

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This is good news and bad news- the good news is that there is pretty convincing evidence that coffee and tea consumption reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The bad news is that millions of people who do get diabetes consume lots of coffee and tea. So the reasons behind the evidence are unclear. Like with most things, there is probably more than one factor at work. It’s possible that coffee and tea drinkers have different life-style traits that influence the effects of caffeine or the other ingredients in coffee and tea. It’s also possible that coffee and tea drinkers burn more calories from the effects of the caffeine. But all in all, at the very least, we can put aside the warnings of years gone by that they are bad for you. In general, unless you are very sensitive to caffeine, there is no problem with drinking coffee and tea. So, if you like coffee and tea, enjoy. But please don’t use this as an excuse to over eat and not exercise. There is no doubt at all that the best way for most people to avoid developing diabetes is with a good diet and exercise.

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People who drink the most coffee and tea, even decaffeinated versions, can dramatically lower their risk of diabetes, researchers reported on Monday.

“Every additional cup of coffee consumed in a day was associated with a 7 percent reduction in the excess risk of diabetes,” Rachel Huxley of The University of Sydney in Australia and an international team of colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.