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Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health Frank B. Hu and Chief of Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Jo Ann Manson led a team of researchers investigating 120,000 participants for 12 to 18 years...
...This is good news for coffee drinkers, however it doesn’t mean everyone should run out for a latte,” Hu said in a press release. “We still don’t know exactly why coffee is beneficial for diabetes, and more research is clearly needed...
About 42,000 men and 84,000 women who were free of diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease were chosen from the ongoing Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS) and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital-based Nurses’ Health Study, according to Hu...
...drank more than six cups of caffeinated coffee per day cut their chances of developing type 2 diabetes by almost half, while women who did the same lowered their risk by about 30 percent. Decaffeinated coffee, although beneficial, did not have the same potency as caffeinated coffee, Hu said...
Researchers are not sure why drinking coffee decreases the diabetes risk. According to Hu, caffeine’s short term effects are to raise blood sugar and increase energy expenditure. However, he cautions that the long-term effects are still unknown...