A large-scale study in Germany shows that drinking coffee does not increase the risk of heart disease or cancer, but helps reduce the risk of type B diabetes. The conclusions of this nearly ten-year study in Germany contradict those of previous studies on coffee drinking. Some studies have shown that coffee drinking can increase the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke and other diseases.
The German team found that drinking coffee did not increase the risk of major chronic diseases in healthy adults. According to the report published by the research group in the American Journal of clinical nutrition, researchers led by fleagler, an epidemiologist at the German Institute of human nutrition, collected data on coffee drinking, diet, exercise habits and health status of 42000 German adults who did not suffer from any chronic diseases at the beginning of the study.
Over the next nine years, the research team followed them every twoorthree years to see if they had any health problems, especially cardiovascular disease, stroke, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. They found that regular coffee drinkers and non coffee drinkers had the same risk of developing these diseases.
At the same time, researchers also found that coffee drinkers had a lower risk of developing type B diabetes than non coffee drinkers. After taking into account the possible causes of diabetes, such as weight and smoking, the researchers believe that coffee drinkers have a 23% lower risk of diabetes than others.
