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Do Coffee and Caffeine Help Manage Diabetes and Six Important Facts

Monday, February 10, 2014 By Clara Schneider MS, RD, RN, CDE, LDN

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Morning coffee-it is the only way to get the day started for many people all over the world. Recently many articles about coffee have been released in the news. Many people are asking, what’s the story-is coffee a good choice for people trying to prevent diabetes? Is there information about the effects of caffeine and coffee if one has diabetes? We’ll discuss six interesting studies and facts about coffee and caffeine. 

Fact 1: Caffeine and memory - A recent small study carried and published in 2014  at Johns Hopkins University with 73 subjects concluded that as little as 200 milligrams of caffeine enhances a special type of memory called pattern separation for up to 24 hours. When a person distinguishes the differences between two similar items that are not identical, they are exercising pattern discrimination. (1,2,3)

The Mayo Clinic has an interesting graph depicting the amounts of caffeine in many popular drinks. /.../

Read more: http://www.diabetescare.net/authors/clara-schneider/do-coffee-and-caffeine-help-manage-diabetes-and-six-important-facts?utm_source=Outbrain#ixzz3RLcYulrX

TEA

Tea trumps coffee for non-cardivascular mortality

September 2, 2014

Green tea (credit: (Fig.: By Kanko from Nagasaki, Japan)

Drinking tea is associated with 24% reduced non-cardiovascular mortality, reveals a study of 131,000 people presented at theEuropean Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress by ProfessorNicolas Danchin from France.

The study included 131,401 people aged 18 to 95 years who had a health check up at the Paris IPC Preventive Medicine Center between January 2001 and December 2008. During a mean 3–5 years follow-up, there were 95 deaths from CV and 632 deaths from non-CV causes.

The researchers found that coffee drinkers had a higher CV risk profile than non-drinkers, particularly for smokers. The percentage of current smokers was 17% for non-drinkers compared with 31% in those who drank 1 to 4 cups per day and 57% in those who drank more than 4 cups per day.

Non-coffee drinkers were more physically active, with 45% having a good level of physical activity compared to 41% of the heavy coffee drinkers. Professor Danchin said: “This is highly significant in our large population.”

Tea was associated with lower blood pressure than coffee, with a 4–5 mmHg decrease in SBP and 3 mmHg decrease in DBP in the heavy tea drinkers, compared to non-drinkers, when adjusted for age.

“Overall we tend to have a higher risk profile for coffee drinkers and a lower risk profile for tea drinkers,” hse said. “We also found big differences with gender. Men tend to drink coffee much more than women, while women tend to drink more tea than men.”

references:

• Nicolas Danchin, presentation at European Society of Cardiology Congress 2014

Mitos e verdades sobre o café

Cientistas afirmam: café não faz mal à saúde

Primeiros resultados de uma pesquisa feita pelo Instituto do Coração, em São Paulo, indicam que bebida não aumenta o risco de infarto./.../

Coffee: the ultimate superdrink

The ultimate superdrink

Java and caffeine are chock-full of health benefits. Here are the top reasons to order up a cup.

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Benefit your bean

It's a no-brainer! Lifelong caffeinated-coffee fans may be less prone to develop Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Coffee's antioxidants may tamp down cell damage linked to Parkinson's. And caffeine blocks inflammation in the brain, which is associated with Alzheimer's.

Sip for your smile

Caffeinated java has antibacterial and antiadhesive powers, so it may keep cavity-causing bacteria from eating your enamel. And drinking a cup daily has been shown to slash oral cancer risk by half. Also, compounds found in coffee may limit cancer cell growth and DNA damage. /.../

Coffee Consumption : Lower Stroke Risk for Women

High Coffee Consumption Linked to Lower Stroke Risk for Women

By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: February 17, 2009 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor  University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

MADRID, Feb. 17 -- Drinking caffeinated coffee regularly may lower the stroke risk for women, according to data from the Nurses' Health Study. Action Points   Explain to interested patients that although this study found an inverse association between coffee consumption and stroke risk, adjusting for high blood pressure, hypercholesterolemia, and type 2 diabetes attenuated the relationship. Point out that the association was significant only in women who had never smoked or who had quit. Women who drank two to three cups a day had a 19% reduction in the risk of all strokes, with greater consumption lowering the risk even further (P=0.003 for trend), found Esther Lopez-Garcia, Ph.D., of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, and Harvard colleagues. The association was weakened after adjusting for high blood pressure, hypercholesterolemia, and type 2 diabetes, and was not statistically significant among current smokers, the investigators reported in the Feb. 17 issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. "These results should be supported by further research before the possible implications for public health and clinical practice are considered," the researchers said. Previous studies have linked coffee consumption to a lower risk of diabetes. (See: Perk Up -- Coffee May Give a Break on Type 2 Diabetes)/.../

Café e Saúde

Depois de ser lançado nos Estados Unidos, será apresentado no Brasil, maior produtor e segundo país que mais consome a bebida, o livro “Café: a bebida revolucionária para o prazer e a saúde”, do médico e estudioso dos efeitos do café na saúde, Darcy Lima, com co-autoria de Roseane Santos. A obra desvenda o paradoxo do café em um estudo fascinante que informa, especialmente aos amantes da bebida, os efeitos positivos do café no corpo humano. O lançamento faz parte da programação do 15° Encafé (maior evento do setor industrial de café - ABIC), que será realizado de 14 a 18 de novembro, em Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, com o tema "Sustentabilidade e Consumo Consciente"./.../