If you read enough of my blog, you know I love the health studies: Those that favor my caffeine addiction and love for my other favorite beverages: wine and champagne. Today is another lucky day as the latest study, this time from Australia, reviewed 18 prior studies and received data from 500,000 people. The conclusion is divine: Coffee is Good. Not just good tasting or that it is responsible for a wonderful, wafting aroma, but that it is a beverage with significant health benefits. YES!
There are plenty of studies that have such small sample sizes you only hope the results hold up. Not this one. The numbers are impressive.
This particular research found that 4 cups of coffee or tea lowered the risk of Type 2 Diabetes! It gets better: Each cup reduced the likelihood of getting diabetes by about 7%. The simple translation: 3-4 cups of coffee daily reduces diabetes by about 25%. They found that those who consumed more than 3-4 cups of decaf lowered their risk by about one-third. If it’s tea you prefer, 3-4 cups of tea lowered the risk by one-fifth. Now there’s no need to hesitate having that 3rd or 4th cup!
An earlier study from Harvard reported that men who drank 6 or more cups of coffee a day had a 60% lower chance of getting prostate cancer! Coffee, the frequent villain of numerous discussions, has been elevated to an important position in the scientific literature and in our lives.
Now if you add 2 teaspoons of sugar to each cup of coffee…That’s another study.
I’m sure someone is trying to figure out that metric right now!
#1 by Kate White at December 20th, 2009
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More! More! Your tastes are like mine! Now, let me see that Drink More Wine and Champagne post!
#2 by admin at December 20th, 2009
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Hit the search button on far right and you’ll see my appreciation for wine and its bubbly sib. Start with the one called “A Healthy, Everyday Pour.”
Enjoy.
#3 by Will Forbes at December 20th, 2009
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This is an old answer and probably inflated! A number of studies have to correct for bad lifestyle issues – like pastry!
See
http://www.annals.org/content/140/1/1.abstract
Ann Intern Med. 2004 Jan 6;140(1):1-8.
Coffee consumption and risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Salazar-Martinez E, Willett WC, Ascherio A, Manson JE, Leitzmann MF, Stampfer MJ, Hu FB.
Harvard School of Public Health, Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Will