Coffee and Diabetes – Coffee (Really) Lowers Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

A systematic review of 9 cohert studies of coffee and diabetes by two Doctors as published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows making coffee and drinking it like crazy may be the best counter to your sweet tooth.

The doctors identified 9 studies by other researches of coffee consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes, including 193,473 participants and 8394 cases of type 2 diabetes occurring in that group.

The relative risk of type 2 diabetes was lowest for those drinking 6 to 7 cups a day and increased as the coffee consumption decreased.

The association of coffee and the risk of type 2 diabetes did not differ substantially by sex, obesity, or region (United States and Europe). In the cross-sectional studies conducted in northern Europe, southern Europe, and Japan, higher coffee drinking was consistently associated with a lower pervasiveness of newly identified type 2 diabetes.

This analytic review supports the researchers hypothesis that habitual coffee consumption is associated with a substantially lower risk of type 2 diabetes.