Coffee And Diabetes – The Connection Is Very Interesting

Every time you drink a cup of coffee, are you worried that there may be a connection between coffee and diabetes?

If you’ve watched a loved one suffer from complications of diabetes, the nagging fears that lurk in the back of your mind are ones that can prevent you from enjoying that cup of coffee!

One of the most recent studies that examined the relationship between coffee and diabetes is one that was an analysis of other studies done on the topic. The information was analyzed at the Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics at the Medical College at Qingdao University in China. Their study involved a total of over a million people, and about 50,000+ who had type 2 diabetes.

The scientists found these important connections between coffee and diabetes:

* The incidence of type 2 diabetes decreased by 12% for every two cups coffee per day. Interesting, huh?

* The incidence of type 2 diabetes decreased by 11% for every 2 cups decaffeinated coffee consumed per day.

* The incidence of type 2 diabetes decreased by 11% for every 200 mg/day of caffeine consumed.

* These associations were stronger for women than for men.

* The association of coffee and diabetes (type 2) was stronger for non-smokers and those who had normal body weight.

Caffeine at high doses can increase calcium loss from the bones, cause insomnia and anxiety, and may be related to an increased risk of fractured bones. So there’s a ‘good’ level of coffee consumption and a ‘bad’ level.

What About Coffee and Arrhythmias?

In the past decade, you may have heard reports on the news that coffee drinkers have higher risks of developing stroke, heart attack or heart failure, diabetes and even cancer. And if you noticed your heart seemed to be skipping some beats (called arrhythmia), you may have instinctively reduced your caffeine intake and noticed that the arrhythmias disappeared. Yet the research reports that there’s no correlation to reduced chance of caffeine causing atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.

Similar studies in the past have reported that consuming coffee regularly seems to reduce the chance of dying (called mortality) for all causes, even deaths from heart disease.

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