Caffeine Fights Diabetes
source: drweil.com
Caffeine Fights Diabetes
Sadly, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Japan has risen from 5 to 15
percent of the population in the last two decades, probably for the same
reasons the disease is rampant in the rest of the developed world – too much
bad food and not enough exercise.
But an ongoing study, known as the Japan Collaborative Cohort Study for
Evaluation of Cancer Risk, which has followed 110,792 adults in Japan for
over 16 years, reported in the April, 2006, Annals of Internal Medicine that
those who consumed more than six cups of green tea or three cups of coffee
daily had a 33 percent and a 42 percent lower risk of type 2 diabetes,
respectively.
Although, according to this study, coffee appears to be more effective than
green tea in combating diabetes, I still prefer, and recommend, green tea
for its other demonstrated health effects such as lowered cardiac mortality
and reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease. In short, green tea is a healthful
addition to almost any diet, and this study confirms that fact.