Reduce Chances Of Diabetes With Coffee, Tea and Decaf’s

Studies, researches and surveys are the only things that help us predict the future of our world. Well, according to a recent study conducted in the University Of Sydney, Australia by Rachel Huxley, D. Phil and colleagues, the results of several relative studies on the consumption of tea, coffee and decafs, were proven true.

The group identified near about 18 studies performed on the consumption and effects of tea, coffee and also decaffeinated coffee. All these studies were mainly performed between the time periods of 1966 to 2009 which involved nearly 457,922 participants. The study of these researches brought up a serious health information that can prove to be extremely helpful for the entire mankind.

From among these 18 studies, six studies were mainly on the consumption decaffeinated coffee and involved a total of 225,516 individuals. While there were seven studies on 286,701 subjects who had a regular habit of drinking tea. The remaining number of studies was largely on people drinking the decaffeinated coffee.

Risk of diabetes

Analyzing the study and the data found from each of these researches, the authors came to a conclusion that each cup of coffee, tea or decaffeinated coffee further helped in reducing the risk of diabetes in the life of the participants. The authors had previously stated that by 2025, an approximate number of 380 million people across the world can get affected from type 2 diabetes. The authors wrote, “Despite considerable research attention, the role of specific dietary and lifestyle factors remains uncertain, although obesity and physical inactivity have consistently been reported to raise the risk of diabetes mellitus.” But, this number can be reduced with the increase in the consumption of coffee, tea and other decaffeinated coffee.

To prove this result, the authors analyzed all the data availed from the previous researches and found that every single cup of coffee that is consumed in a day was directly associated with about 7 percent reduction in the risk of diabetes. While, a person who would drink about three to four cups of coffee a day had an approximately 25 percent reduced risk of diabetes than people having zero to about two cups of coffee every day.

A similar result was availed about people having decaffeinated coffee. People having near about three to four cups of decaffeinated coffee every day, had a surprisingly one third risk of suffering from diabetes as compared to those having no coffee at all. Similarly, people having more than four cups of tea had just one fifth risk suffering from diabetes as compared to those having no tea.

The author of the study thus said, “That the apparent protective effect of tea and coffee consumption appears to be independent of a number of potential confounding variables raises the possibility of direct biological effects.” According to the research, the only relative component in all these drinks is caffeine which possibly may be the reason behind this health secret. The other components also include magnesium, tea, anti-oxidants like chlorogenic acids and lignans.

The authors note also said, “If such beneficial effects were observed in interventional trials to be real, the implications for the millions of individuals who have diabetes mellitus, or who are at future risk of developing it, would be substantial.” It further explained with an example saying, “For example, the identification of the active components of these beverages would open up new therapeutic pathways for the primary prevention of diabetes mellitus. It could also be envisaged that we will advise our patients most at risk for diabetes mellitus to increase their consumption of tea and coffee in addition to increasing their levels of physical activity and weight loss.”