Moderate consumption of coffee can reduce the incidence of diabetes.

Chinanews.com, Wuhan, Feb. 26 (Zhou Jin) the author learned from Huazhong University of Science and Technology on the 26th that a new research team led by Professor Huang Kun of the School of Pharmacy of Tongji Medical College of the university believes that drinking about 4 cups of coffee a day for a long time can inhibit harmful protein changes in the body and reduce the risk of diabetes by 50%. The results of this study, as the "weekly selected papers" of the American Chemical Society, have appeared on the home page of its official website, and have attracted wide attention from scholars at home and abroad and international media.

For a long time, some people have found through experience that there seems to be a link between coffee consumption and the low incidence of diabetes, but the mechanism by which coffee consumption can reduce the prevalence of diabetes is still unclear. Huang Kun and other studies have found that there are two active ingredients in coffee, which can inhibit the harmful changes of a protein that causes diabetes in the pancreas, and drinking more coffee may play a certain role in the treatment and prevention of diabetes.

Its research also shows that the high content of caffeine in coffee has low antidiabetic activity, and drinking more decaffeinated coffee should be better.

Professor Huang Kun said in an interview that many people like to add a lot of sugar, milk or coffee companions when drinking coffee, which have a certain negative effect on diabetes. Therefore, it is recommended to drink sugar-free, milk-free and fat-free black coffee as much as possible. in addition, a very anti-diabetic ingredient in coffee is also rich in green tea, and regular drinking green tea may also have the effect of inhibiting diabetes.

At the end of last year, Huang Kun and others formally put forward this "opinion" in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a journal of the American Chemical Society, that the main ingredients of coffee inhibit the harmful accumulation of human amylin: the link between coffee drinking and the incidence of diabetes.

Professor Huang Kun is mainly engaged in the research of metabolic diseases and related innovative biotechnology drugs. He returned from the United States to work at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in early 2008. He is a "New Century Talent" of China's Ministry of Education and a "Chutian Scholar" of Hubei Province.

At present, Professor Huang Kun's research team is based on this research to carry out the development of new anti-diabetes drugs. (end)