* I'm wondering about this study.....  If caffeine raises insulin levels. Is
this just politics?!
Oliva

February 17, 2004
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Today's Topic: Coffee and Diabetes

A recent analysis finds that people who drink the most coffee have
less risk of developing type 2 diabetes.  The risk was cut in half in
men and by a third in women drinking the most coffee.  The study is
another in the ongoing output of Harvard studies on the Nurses' Health
Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study.

About 84,000 women and 42,000 men were asked about diet every 2 to
4 years and followed for 20 years.  During that time, over 5,000 cases
of diabetes were diagnosed.  Coffee drinking ranged from none to more
than 6 cups a day.  The study was published in the January 6, 2004
edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
< http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/abstract/140/1/1 >

HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Coffee drinking correlated
with alcohol intake, and alcohol drinking has been previously linked
with less type 2 diabetes.  Previous studies have also linked coffee
to less diabetes, but this study implicates caffeinated coffee as
having most of the effect; decaffeinated coffee had a much smaller
effect and tea had no benefit.  Do these results mean that increasing
coffee intake can prevent or treat diabetes?  Of course not.  They
suggest there may be something in coffee that has a beneficial effect
or that something about the lifestyle of coffee drinkers should get
the credit.