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Coffee versus diabetes

From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I�m Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.

Coffee may do more than brush away the morning cobwebs. A study indicates something in the brew could reduce the risk of diabetes.

Mark Pereira of the University of Minnesota bases that on a study of postmenopausal women. His work, which was supported by the National Institutes of Health, was in Archives of Internal Medicine.

"The more coffee that women reported in their diets, the lower their risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future. And we followed over 28,000 women for an 11-year period." (12 seconds)

Pereira says it�s probably not the caffeine which is behind that effect, but it could be something else in coffee.

And, while he�s not ready to recommend coffee as a way to prevent diabetes, he says coffee is looking more and more like something that�s generally good for you.

Learn more at www.hhs.gov.

HHS HealthBeat is a production of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I�m Ira Dreyfuss.

Last revised: October 5, 2006

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