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I'm sure you all have read in the news about how drinking coffee and tea can potentially lower your risk of diabetes.

Does anyone know of any studies that have proven this to be true?  Anyone had any experience with this?

(Here's a link to one of the many news articles about this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/15/coffee-tea-diabetes-risk_n_392773.html)

The study was done in Australia (University of Sydney) specific to IRD (aka Type 2 Diabetes). No one at present is sure if it is the caffeine, antioxidants, magnesium, chlorogenic acids and more in combination or separately which is found in both tea and coffee that reduced the onset for T2DM.

In my opinion, one can also say that all the participants scratched their ear ten times while drinking coffee.

Can we then say that this too led to a decline in T2DM? .......why Not? lol

Numerous studies have been performed evaluating the health benefits of tea.  Most of the health benefits were from studies that looked at the effects of plain brewed green and/or black tea.  The two most recent studies about tea preventing diabetes are:

Archives of Internal Medicine, December 14/28, 2009.

The Journal of the American Medical Association March 2009

In 2005 a review of coffee studies was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association and reported that routine coffee consumption was associated with a lower risk of developing diabetes.  Researchers from Harvard University evaluated data from 126,000 people over 18 years and found that men having 6 or more cups of coffee a day lowered their risk for diabetes by 54%; in women they noted a 30% decrease.

Presently there is some fairly good scientific data to support the consumption of coffee and tea in moderation may help prevent diabetes, of course along with a healthy lifestyle and maintenance of a healthy weight.  I'm sure more research will be coming.  The exact mechanism of action is still unknown.