{"id":218478,"date":"2009-12-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/coffee_and_tea_may_prevent"},"modified":"2009-12-16T15:51:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T20:51:54","slug":"coffee-and-tea-may-prevent-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218478","title":{"rendered":"Coffee and Tea May Prevent Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"0\" alt=\"coffee at desk\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/coffee09.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" \/>Are you a morning person? The kind of person who springs out of bed at the crack of dawn and doesn&#8217;t need a shot of caffeine to get going? Or are you the opposite? Clinging to your last precious minutes of sleep and then downing three cups of coffee before you can be fully functional?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the former and I always tease my friends who rely on coffee to get them going in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>But it turns out those coffee drinkers may be getting a health benefit that I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research shows that drinking coffee or tea (decaf or not) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/news\/fullstory_92991.html\" title=\"coffee and tea study\">may reduce the risk of diabetes<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Now before you stop reading and run off to get a refill, you should know that the researchers aren&#8217;t sure what causes the link between coffee and tea drinkers and decreased <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.usa.gov\/cgi-bin\/gsa_ict.cfg\/php\/enduser\/std_adp.php?p_faqid=7271&amp;p_created=1144861225&amp;p_sid=48PdHAPj&amp;p_accessibility=0&amp;p_redirect=&amp;p_lva=&amp;p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MTMsMTMmcF9wcm9kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz0mcF9wdj0mcF9jdj0mcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1kaWFiZXRlcw**&amp;p_li=&amp;p_topview=1\" title=\"Diabetes information\">diabetes<\/a>. They&#8217;ve ruled out caffeine since the effect was noticeable in decaf as well. But there are many other things that could play a part, such as the diets of the people in the study.<\/p>\n<p>Before they say that anything is conclusive, the researchers said clinical trials are necessary. <\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t start guzzling that cup of joe just yet, but stay tuned for the latest results.<\/p>\n<p>Are you a coffee or tea drinker? And do you prefer decaf?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a morning person? The kind of person who springs out of bed at the crack of dawn and doesn&#8217;t need a shot of caffeine to get going? Or are you the opposite? Clinging to your last precious minutes of sleep and then downing three cups of coffee before you can be fully functional? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}