It may be hard to believe, but it appears that you can lower the risk of getting type 2 diabetes if you drink more coffee or tea.

Certain dietary and lifestyle factors have been known to play a role in increasing or reducing the risk of getting type 2 diabetes. It is uncertain even though obesity and physical inactivity have consistently been reported to raise the risk of diabetes.

Now there is much more evidence that drinking coffee or tea may be linked with reducing the risk. Studies have found that each additional cup of coffee consumed in a day was associated with a 7 percent reduction in the excess risk of diabetes. Individuals who drank three to four cups per day had an approximately 25 percent lower risk than those who drank between zero and two cups per day.

In the studies that assessed decaffeinated coffee consumption, those who drank more than three to four cups per day had about a one-third lower risk of diabetes than those who drank none. Those who drank more than three to four cups of tea had a one-fifth lower risk than those who drank no tea.

“The apparent protective effect of tea and coffee consumption appears to be independent of a number of potential confounding variables and raises the possibility of direct biological effects. Because of the association between decaffeinated coffee and diabetes risk, the association is unlikely to be solely related to caffeine. Other compounds in coffee and tea including magnesium, antioxidants known as lignans or chlorogenic acids may be involved.

If such beneficial effects of coffee and tea are really real, the implications for the millions of individuals who have diabetes mellitus, or who are at future risk of developing it, would be substantial. For example, the identification of the active components of these beverages could open up new therapeutic options for the primary prevention of diabetes mellitus. The findings also pose the question of whether patients most at risk for diabetes mellitus may in the future be advised to increase their consumption of tea and coffee in addition to increasing their levels of physical activity.”

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