Drinking coffee can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes

A study by the George School of International Health (George Institute for International Health) at the University of Sydney in Australia found that coffee intake, whether regular or decaffeinated, can help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, and people who drink an extra cup of coffee a day are 7 per cent less likely to develop diabetes. Compared with coffee drinkers who drank less than two cups of coffee a day, drinking three or four cups of coffee a day reduced the risk of diabetes by up to 25 percent.

The study was published in Archives of Internal Medicine in the December issue of the American Medical Association journal Archives of Internal Medicine.

Researcher Rachel Huxley RachelHuxley of Pear University in Sydney, Australia, and the team analyzed 18 studies on the risk of coffee consumption and diabetes, involving a total of 457922 people from 1966 to 2009.

Professor Lars Riden, a spokesman for the European College of Cardiology, commented that studies have shown that people who drink coffee are less likely to develop diabetes than those who do not drink coffee. But Professor Lars Riden warns that changing habits is more important than drinking coffee to prevent diabetes. As long as you lose 5-10% of your weight, exercise regularly, and walk 30 minutes a day, your risk of developing diabetes can be reduced by 40-50%.