The Facts:
* This was a huge study involving some 28,000 women over an 11-year period.
* Women who didn’t drink coffee were about 5 times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than women who drank 6 or more cups of coffee per day.
* De-caffeinated coffee was found to be better than regular coffee as caffeine consumption itself was not linked to the disease.
Shaun’s comment: Type 2 diabetes is a major health issue with 1 in 4 New Zealanders expected to develop the condition at some time in their life. This study suggests that increasing our coffee consumption, particularly de-caffeinated coffee, might help to reduce the risk. The decaffeination process involves steaming the unroasted (green) coffee beans, rinsing them in solvent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvent and repeating the process 8 to 12 times until it meets the international standard of having removed 97% of the caffeine in the beans.
Study Reference:
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/166/12/1311
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