Drinking cups of tea and coffee 'can prevent diabetes'

Tea and coffee drinkers have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a large body of evidence shows.

And the protection may not be down to caffeine since decaf coffee has the greatest effect, say researchers in Archives of Internal Medicine.

They looked at 18 separate studies involving nearly 500,000 people.

This analysis revealed that people who drink three or four cups of coffee or tea a day cut their risk by a fifth or more, say researchers.

The same amount of decaffeinated coffee had an even bigger effect, lowering risk by a third.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8411605.stm

I should start drinking more cawfee

YAY....

I couldn't live without tea!

Oh well that's alright then. I drink loads of tea and coffee (no sugar either!)

Also, did you know that turmeric helps prevent alzeihmers?

Drinking coffee did me no good...

I just heard that on the news
wonder what Hot Chocolate does

I hope so.Diabetes in any form does terrible things!
And it doesn't take long either!

i love mah tea and now its gets even better! :D

I should be fine then, I must go through 20 cups of coffee a day, no wonder I dont sleep too well.

Finally an excuse to drink more coffee (as if I need one!)

Haha every year theres somthing differnt that makes you better fad i say

Better than all the stuff that's supposed to give you cancer that we hear about all the time

this is true haha but one week somthing is good for you the next it is not.. i dont pay any attention!!

dont these sceientists have anything better to do ?? lol

Someone put the kettle on then. I'll get the biccies.

Custard creams for me!

Apparently not, but it must be so much fun to be a scientist these days if these are the kind of studies they do all day. I can think of worse jobs