Drinking coffee can reduce the risk of diabetes

Drinking coffee reduces the risk of diabetes

Diabetes is a disease in which glucose tends to accumulate too much in the blood. It is nicknamed "silent killer" (Silent Killer) abroad, especially "adult diabetes". The infection rate is particularly high among middle-aged people over the age of 40. Once suffering from diabetes, life expectancy will be reduced by as much as ten years, and complications may occur all over the body (Baidu encyclopedia).

China, which was still solving the problem of food and clothing 30 years ago, now has to worry about the "wealth and noble disease" of its countrymen: 92 million diabetics and 148 million prediabetics. The rapid growth of people with diabetes has pushed China to the first place in the world, surpassing India to become the country with the largest number of people with diabetes in the world. The prevalence of diabetes in China is growing at an alarming rate (people's Daily online).

Although coffee is the largest beverage in the world, the per capita coffee consumption in China, which has the largest population in the world, is very small. According to the data of the August 2011 issue of GlobalCoffeeReview, the annual per capita coffee consumption in the world is 400 cups. The annual per capita coffee consumption in China is less than 5 cups, but the annual growth rate of Chinese coffee consumption is about 25%. So, apart from being enlightened, awakening and alert, is coffee good for your health?

The February 21, 2012 THEHINDU.COM article pointed out: "drinking coffee can reduce the risk of diabetes." See below for details:

Do you want to stay away from diabetes? Drink four cups of coffee a day.

An European research team found that people who drank a moderate amount of coffee a day had a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who did not drink coffee or occasionally.

Drinking coffee reduces the risk of diabetes by 30 percent and does not increase the risk of heart disease or cancer, the study said.

The researchers followed 42659 people who volunteered for a survey called EPIC for an average of nearly nine years. During this period, 1432 people were found to have type 2 diabetes, 394 had heart attacks, 310 had strokes and 1801 had cancer.

The results showed that people who drank more than four cups of coffee a day (with or without caffeine) were less likely to develop chronic diseases than those who drank less than one cup of coffee a day. People who drink moderate amounts of coffee are 20 to 30 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes. The findings are published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition).

A total of ten countries participated in the research project, and Germany was responsible for the final induction and analysis of the results.

Euan Paul of the British Coffee Association said: "this study provides us with increasing data: drinking coffee in moderation, four to five cups a day, is safe and does not increase the risk of chronic disease."