Caffeine Increases Blood Sugar For Diabetics
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center performed this study on type 2 diabetics and found that caffeine caused sugar levels to rise and exaggerated the rise in glucose after meals.
They used a new glucose monitor that is embedded under abdominal skin and allows continuous monitoring of glucose levels over a 72 hour period. Participants were given capsules that contained caffeine equivalent to about 4 cups of coffee on one day and a placebo on other days.
Four cups of coffee seems like a large amount of caffeine to me; however, I am not a coffee drinker. It also seems to go against previous suggestions that green tea helps manage and possibly prevent diabetes. Although, the caffeine contained in green tea is much less than that found in even a single cup of coffee, which can have 40 to 100 milligrams per cup. Green tea typically contains about a fourth of the caffeine as coffee.
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