Many more and Evidence, Coffee-Tea Prevent Diabetes

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Coffee, tea or decaf! Whatever your choice, eat one type of drink that can reduce risks of diabetes, according to the latest analysis of 18 studies involving hundreds of thousands of people.

Of a research study in 2005 concluded that people who drank coffee most likely to face three times less diabetes than those who drank the least coffee, said Dr. Rachel Huxley of the University of Sydney, Australia.

A few years since then, the amount of research on the relationship of coffee and increased risk of diabetes more than doubled. While other studies show that tea and coffee, non-caffeine may also be prevented.

To update the evidence, Huxley and his team analyzed 18 research linking coffee, decaf, and tea, with the risk of type 2 diabetes published between 1966-2009 and involving 459,000 people.

Diabetes type 2, which is often associated with obesity, affects nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population, according to "U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases".

From each cup of coffee consumed each day, the experts noted the risk of someone stricken with diabetes decreased by seven percent. In the sixth study, which examined the non-caffeine coffee, the researchers found, people who consume more than three or four cups of coffee per day had a risk of diabetes 36 per cent lower.

In the seven studies that examined the tea drinking habits and risk of diabetes, people who drink more than three or four glasses per day at risk 18 percent lower for diabetes.

According to Huxley and his team note, the current analysis may be too enlarge estimate of the impact of the drink for diabetes risk factors with a scale statistical studies of smaller. Also not possible to say from this evidence that heavy coffee addicts and tea and non-caffeine drinks do not have other characteristics that may protect them from diabetes, such as a healthier diet.

The fact that the visible effects of decaf, coffee and tea as real, it's not just the caffeine alone, but may also be associated with other materials found in the drink. For example magnesium, lignans - estrogen-like chemicals found in plants - or klorogenik acid - which are antioxidants that slow the release of sugar into the blood after eating.

Clinical research is needed to investigate whether it was the drink helps to prevent diabetes. If benefits were proven true, the doctors may be able to begin advising patients at risk of diabetes that not only have to exercise and lose weight, but also drinking tea and coffee.

Source : Kompas.com