Does Coffee Help Diabetics

Coffee May Reduce Diabetes Biomarkers

New evidence suggests that drinking coffee may help reduce markers linked to type 2 diabetes.

The study included 47 people who regularly drank coffee. During the first month of the study, the participants did not drink any coffee. For the next month, they drank four 150-milliliter cups of filtered coffee daily, and during the third month, they drank eight cups of filtered coffee daily. Blood samples were taken throughout the study to assess biomarkers for inflammation, oxidative stress, glucose metabolism and lipid metabolism.

By the end of the study, the authors found that markers of inflammation and oxidative stress significantly reduced. Additionally, levels of adiponectin, a protein that regulates glucose and fat metabolism, increased by six percent. Total cholesterol and HDL cholesterol increased by 12, 7 and 4, percent respectively, and ratios of LDL to HDL decreased by eight percent.

"Coffee consumption appears to have beneficial effects on subclinical inflammation and HDL cholesterol, whereas no changes in glucose metabolism were found," the authors concluded in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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1.Kempf K, Herder C, Erlund I, et al. Effects of coffee consumption on subclinical inflammation and other risk factors for type 2 diabetes: a clinical trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Feb 24. View Abstract
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