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Bariatric Surgery Resolves Diabetes, Saves Money

Bariatric Surgery Resolves Diabetes, Saves Money

Coffee Reduces Risk of Diabetes

 

Drinking coffee may reduce your risk of diabetes?  GREAT, another reason not to quit.  I never had diabetes, even at my highest weight or while pregnant, and now I have very low blood sugars. 

Maybe the coffee helped?  *sarcasm*

PS.  Totally aware that caffeine increases risk of hypoglycemia, and also helps me feel it coming*. 

*Thus we conclude that in modest doses, caffeine may be a useful adjuvant therapy for patients with hypoglycemia unawareness. For once here is a therapy which is inexpensive, safe, and remarkably popular with its consumers. 

But, to help stave off the 'betes?

Reuters -

A 2005 research review concluded that people who drank the most coffee were one-third less likely to develop diabetes than those who drank the least, Dr. Rachel Huxley of The University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues note. In the years since then, they add, the amount of research on coffee and diabetes risk "has more than doubled," while other studies have suggested that tea and decaf coffee may also be preventive. To update the evidence, Huxley and her team analyzed 18 studies on coffee, decaf, and tea and the risk of type 2 diabetes published between 1966 and 2009, including just shy of 458,000 people in all. Type 2 diabetes, which is often tied to obesity, affects about 8 percent of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. 

For every additional cup of coffee a person consumed each day, the study's authors found, a person's risk of diabetes was reduced by 7 percent. In the six studies that looked at decaf coffee, the researchers found, people who consumed more than three or four cups a day were at 36 percent lower risk of diabetes.

And in seven studies that examined tea drinking and diabetes risk, people who drank more than three or four cups daily were at 18 percent lower diabetes risk.

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(I am not diabetic, never have been.  But, with my blood sugar problems as they have been, I pay attention to news like this.  I have very rapid blood sugar fluctuations.  I go from high-normal to super low in minutes.  I have always wondered about possible damage.  Now that I have obvious neurological issues, I really, really wonder.)