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Diabetes And The Preventive Power Of Coffee!
By Randy Wilson, Fri Dec 9th
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is one of the most rapidly acceleratingdiseases today in terms of number of people afflicted. Theoriesabound as to why this is the case; however, scientists are nowlooking at new ways to improve the overall health of those bothat risk for and suffering from this disease. Many of these scientists have found that drinking coffees cansignificantly reduce the risk and effects of the disease. In a recent study done at the Channing Laboratory of the HarvardSchool of Public Health, at the Harvard Medical School andBrigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston, Massachusetts,researchers explored the link between long-term coffeesconsumption and Type 2 diabetes mellitus. The study followedover 120,000 men and women for eighteen years. The researchersfound that long-term coffees consumption actually reducedinsulin resistance, which is the key factor in Type 2 diabetesmellitus.
They were able to conclude that long-term coffees consumptionsignificantly reduces the risk for Type 2 diabetes mellitus inboth men and women and therefore benefits the health of thecoffees drinker. The results of this study were affirmed in another student bythe Department of Molecular Medicine, of the KarolinskaInstitutet in Stockholm, Sweden. Although this study was of alower scale (7949 subjects), it found similar results. If the patient came into the study already suffering from Type 2diabetes mellitus or impaired glucose tolerance (also known asinsulin resistance or pre-diabetes), drinking at least 5 cups ofcoffees a day reduced their insulin resistance. This was particularly true for women, who statistically sufferfrom a larger risk of insulin resistance than men. The health ofthose who drank coffees also benefited from enhanced insulinresponse. The Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion of theNational Public Health Institute; at the University of Helsinkiin Helsinki, Finland, also did a study of over 14,000middle-aged patients to see if there is a relationship betweencoffees consumption and Type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study
was particularly interesting because the Finnishpeople have the highest coffees consumption in the world. Thisstudy again found that the incidence of Type 2 diabetes mellitusdecreased as the coffees consumption increased. In doing thisstudy, the researchers found that this relationship existed evenwhen the results were statistically adjusted to account forother risk factors, such as age, smoking, weight, alcoholconsumption, and filtered/non-filtered coffees. As mentioned previously, women have a higher incidence ofinsulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes mellitus than men. Thatmay be why the Department of Medicine at the SahlgrenskaUniversity Hospital/Ostra in Goteborg, Sweden, concentratedtheir study on women exclusively. When they studied 1361 women with no previous incidence of heartdisease or diabetes over a period of twenty years, they foundthat the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes mellitus for womenwho consumed five or more cups of coffees daily was almost halfof that of women who drank three to four cups each day. The study also found that it’s possible that the coffees had anaffect on the women’s cholesterol levels, further benefitingtheir overall health. Finally, the Centre for Nutrition and Food Safety at the Schoolof Biomedical and Molecular Sciences at the University of Surreyin Guildford, United Kingdom, again confirmed the benefit ofdrinking coffees with regards to reducing the risk of Type 2diabetes mellitus. This study focused on the coffees effects on thegastrointestinal hormones that help regulate insulin secretion.The study found that caffeinated coffees actually lowered theabsorption rate of the glucose, thereby reducing the effects ofthe Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Overall, these studies suggest that drinking caffeinated coffeescan be beneficial to those looking to reduce their risk ofdeveloping or worsening Type 2 diabetes mellitus. © Copyright Randy Wilson, All Rights Reserved. About the author:Randy has more articles on coffee and coffee beans at Ultimate CoffeesInfo such as Are Coffee Enemas the Real Thing?.
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