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Drinking in coffee, especially when it is decaffeinated, will be associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a report in the Sept 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The link between coffee and diabetes risk comes along to be very consistent across different ages and body weights; in addition, most research has found that the more coffee an individual beverages, the lower his or her risk for diabetes. However, it remains unclear whether it is the caffeine or any other component in coffee, which may confer a protective effect.

Mark A. Pereira, Ph.D., and colleagues at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, had studied coffee intake and diabetes risk in the 28,812 postmenopausal women in Iowa over a 12-year period. At the first of the study, in 1986, the women answered questions about the risk factors for diabetes, including age, body mass index, physical activity, alcohol consumption and other smoking history. They also reported how often they ate a variety of foods and these beverages over the previous year, including regular and decaffeinated coffee.
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Ever heard about benefit about coffee? Maybe its can make you didn’t feel sleepy…but its also can contain antioxidants. Before we get all excited over the recent news about coffee being our new antioxidant, we need to take a look at the entire picture. Is there truly a coffee antioxidant? If there is, how exactly is coffee an antioxidant? Does it become the antioxidant when it’s heated? Does the coffee antioxidant benefit everyone? Are there still dangers to drinking coffee? How much coffee is good for us and when does it become bad for us? Continue Reading →

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