​Drinking Two Or Three Cups Of Coffee A Day Could Lower Diabetes Risk, Research Finds

Many of us have to rely on our morning caffeine fix to get through the day, whether it's a half-arsed cup of instant coffee before running for the bus or some hipster creation that's been heated to the specific temperature of a hippopotamus' anus and fed through a sheet of rice paper.

But while many of us might prang out a bit after a particularly potent brew, feeling like our heart is about to jump out from our chest, apparently it's not necessarily all that bad for us.

According to new research, drinking three or four cups of coffee can actually lower the risk of diabetes by around 25 percent.

It also found that both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee is associated with a reduced risk of type two diabetes.

Experts recently gathered at a 'satellite symposium' hosted by The Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC) at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Berlin, where they discussed the latest findings.

At the symposium, Associate Professor Mattias Carlstrom reviewed the ISIC report and its findings - and how the results highlight the potential role that coffee consumption can have in the reduced risk of diabetes.

Carlstrom, an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, said: "The inverse association between coffee consumption and type 2 diabetes was shown in both men and women.

"Meta-analyses has suggested that both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee are associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes.

"A number of potentially clinically relevant compounds are present in coffee, including caffeine, hydroxycinnamic acids notably chlorogenic acid, trigonelline, diterpenes (egcafestol and kahweol), and caffeic acid."

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ISIC, which is a not-for-profit organisation, was establish in 1990 and is devoted to the study and disclosure of science that relates to 'coffee and health'.

ISIC is made up of six of the major European coffee companies, Illy Café, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Lavazza, Nestlé, Paulig, and Tchibo - so it's probably worth bearing in mind that this research comes from the people who want you to drink coffee.

Either way, it's good to hear there's some positive science pointing in the direction of coffee - though it might have quite the same truth if the morning brew you go for is a triple caramel macchiato with extra cream and 25 pumps of gingerbread syrup... *shudders*.

Topics: Science, Food, World News, News, Drink, Food And Drink, Coffee

Jess Hardiman

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