A recent study claims that drinking coffee can lower one’s risk for diabetes. You may need to enjoy your cup of caffeine with lunch though to get the benefits.
Whether you drink a cup of caffeinated or decaf, sugar or without any sweetener it really does not matter. The research that involved around 70,000 women who enjoyed coffee with their lunch break proved that the subjects also had lower risks of developing type 2 diabetes. The experts suggests that only coffee taken with lunch is beneficial if you want to avoid developing diabetes over the years.
Previous studies have linked coffee in lowering the risks for the obesity related type 2 diabetes but no research linked the timing of the drinking of the coffee so you can get the full benefits of the habit.
The large population of French women was part of a nutritional study in Europe. The subjects were between 41 and 72 years old when they signed up for the study. These subjects were monitored for 11 years.
During the duration of the study, about 1,415 subjects developed diabetes. Those who had regular coffee intake of at least 3 cups were 27% less prone to have type 2 diabetes.
The proponents of the study also looked into the timing of coffee drinking. They found out that only lunch time drinking had effects of lowering the risk for type 2 diabetes. Those who drank more than one cup everyday during lunch were 33% less prone to type 2 diabetes.
The effects were only observed for black coffee since most of the subjects took black coffee. Only a small number of subjects had their coffee with milk or cream. The effects may be related to the timing of the drinking of coffee. The researchers is also considering the effects of the food people are having during lunch. One thing is clear, there is room for coffee in a diabetes diet, and that’s good news for people suffering from the disease!