To Avoid Diabetes Enjoy a Good Cup of Joe

To avoid diabetes, enjoy a good cup of  joe! That is the finding established in the first animal study to determine the link between caffeine and diabetes.

The study, led by Japanese researchers from the Nagoya University in Japan, appears in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry.

Other studies of people have found a correlation between coffee consumption and a reduced risk of diabetes. This new study was conducted to see if there was a direct link between coffee and diabetes.

The researchers gave mice diluted black coffee instead of water. The coffee drinking mice were then compared to a group of water drinking mice. It was found the coffee given the caffeine drinking mice stopped the increase of high blood sugar and also increased insulin sensitivity in the mice which caused the reduction in diabetes.

Next, the researchers did another experiment comparing plain water with caffeinated water. Again, the caffeine drinking mice wound up with less fat than the other mice. The caffeine group also had a lower concentration of blood glucose.

The researchers noted the findings “suggest that coffee consumption may help to prevent type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome”.

Millions of Americans have type 2 diabetes and millions more are at risk of developing it. Diet and exercise are important factors in warding off diabetes and according to this new study, to avoid diabetes, enjoy a good cup of joe!