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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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