Coffee may help cut type 2 diabetes risk (image: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Classic_Cappuccino.jpg)
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We all rely on coffee and tea in the office to power us up for the working day. Most people wouldn’t dream of even setting off to work without having had their first caffeine-high beverage of the day. However, the buzz around coffee is to do with more than just its energising effects!
Coffee and diabetes
The reputed health benefits of coffee are well documented, and now a new study has added further to the existing evidence that coffee may help to reduce our risk of developing diabetes.
An American study of over 120,000 participants has suggested that those who drank three or more cups of coffee a day were at the lowest risk of developing the condition – a significant 37 per cent lower than those who drank one or fewer cups daily.
Health benefits
Data collected over a number of years was analysed by researchers at Harvard University’s School of Public Health, with the result that those people who increased their coffee intake by more than a cup a day over a four-year period were 11 per cent less likely to develop diabetes in the future. The coffee consumed would have represented around 100mg of caffeine per cup, and no effect on diabetes risk was associated with drinking decaffeinated coffee or tea.
While the paper’s researchers commented that further study was required to confirm the results they produced, it was agreed that coffee’s health benefits are now “well established”.
The study was co-led by Dr Shilpa Bhupathiraju, from Harvard School of Public Health’s department of nutrition. Dr Bhupathiraju said that the “biological plausibility” of coffee’s benefits in helping to ward off diabetes risk was “very strong”– although exercise and a healthy diet were the biggest factors in reducing the risk of the condition.
Chlorogenic acid
Dr Bhupathiraju explained that coffee contains many bio-active compounds, one of which is chlorogenic acid, known to improve the metabolism of glucose in animals. In addition, Dr Bhupathiraju reasoned that coffee is rich in magnesium, which again we know is associated with reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Dr Frank Hu, another Harvard co-author of the study, is part of the USA’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and it is believed that the Committee is considering issuing public recommendations of moderate coffee consumption as a measure to help those most at risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
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