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Posted on 06/09/2010 12:24:13 PM PDT by decimon
Scientists are reporting new evidence that drinking coffee may help prevent diabetes and that caffeine may be the ingredient largely responsible for this effect. Their findings, among the first animal studies to demonstrate this apparent link, appear in ACS' bi-weekly Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Fumihiko Horio and colleagues note that past studies have suggested that regular coffee drinking may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. The disease affects millions in the United States and is on the rise worldwide. However, little of that evidence comes from studies on lab animals used to do research that cannot be done in humans.
The scientists fed either water or coffee to a group of laboratory mice commonly used to study diabetes. Coffee consumption prevented the development of high-blood sugar and also improved insulin sensitivity in the mice, thereby reducing the risk of diabetes. Coffee also caused a cascade of other beneficial changes in the fatty liver and inflammatory adipocytokines related to a reduced diabetes risk. Additional lab studies showed that caffeine may be "one of the most effective anti-diabetic compounds in coffee," the scientists say.
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ARTICLE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "Coffee and Caffeine Ameliorate Hyperglycemia, Fatty Liver, and Inflammatory Adipocytokine Expression in Spontaneously Diabetic KK-Ay Mice"
DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT ARTICLE http://pubs.acs.org/stoken/presspac/presspac/full/10.1021/jf904062c
CONTACT: Fumihiko Horio, Ph.D. Department of Applied Molecular Bioscience Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan Phone: 81-52-789-4075 Fax: 81-52-789-4075 Email: horiof@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp
...Especially with donuts.
Ping
I’m safe!
My husband has type 2 diabetes and drinks enough coffee to drown a herd of elephants. He watches his diet, only 20 gr of carbs per day, and is very thin now, was never fat. Seems like what helps most, the days we go to the gym and work out for at least an hour, stepper machine and lifting weights, that seems to lower his blood sugar the most, better than diet or pills. Type 2 comes to people over, under, over. Over 40, underactive, overweight. He was never really overweight, but following the super low carb diet, that he got from a specialist in the field of diabetes, he has gotten very thin.
brb coffee break!
No Country for Old Men
Donuts cure everything.
I think they seriously need to find a cure for this. This epidemic seems even worse than cancer was in the 80’s.
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Many 'grindstone noser go along to get alongs" will poo this fact, but it will do many bad things to you, regardless.
More people are realizing , so hopefully this poison will slack off in it's attack on our health.
Already, at my local grocer, old fashioned Coke is available made from good ol'grass juice (sugar cane) in the old glass bottle.
I've got one chilling in the freezer now & will get the church key a pop the cap when I post this.
They feel great in your hand and taste great too.
Coffee in the morn...you bet!
Now let’s get that right. It’s you betcha!
FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.
N.B. Copy & paste that URL to read the whole article or just the abstract, which I do almost all the time. Reading an original article from the professional literature usually requires a lot of time, even if the material is familiar. Most of the time, the abstract is sufficient.
When my husband got diabetes, he read all about the connection with coffee. It also is true of decaffeinated coffee, so it’s not the caffeine. He never drank coffee, but now does. However, it runs in his family, so I suspect he was pretty much bound to get it. Like your husband, though, his blood sugar responds best to exercising in the gym.
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