Ganolife Coffee May Reduce the risk of Diabetes Part 2

Where as those who reduced their consumption by at least one cup per day increased their risk by 17 per cent.

The study conducted by a team at Harvard School of Public Health also found people who drank three or more cups of coffee a day and did not change their drinking habits had a 37 per cent lower risk of diabetes than those who always drank less than one cup per day.

The research published in Diabetologia found no link between tea drinking and type 2 diabetes.

However other experts said it cannot be ruled out that other factors could account for the link, such as people at risk of type 2 diabetes cutting their coffee consumption or other lifestyle factors that tend to go hand in hand with consuming large amounts of coffee.

Authors Dr Frank Hu and Dr Shilpa Bhupathiraju, of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard wrote in the paper: “Changes in coffee consumption habits appear to affect diabetes risk in a relatively short amount of time.

"Our findings confirm those of prospective studies that higher coffee consumption is associated with a lower type 2 diabetes risk and provide novel evidence that changes in coffee consumption habits are related to diabetes risk.”