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posted: January 16th, 2012 @ 12:20pm
Can coffee prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease. New study gives some insight
Section:  General Diabetes
This is a must read:
 

Kun Huang, PhD (a professor of biological pharmacy at the Huazhong University of Science & Technology)and colleagues wrote in the American Chemistry Society's Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry. “We found three major coffee compounds can reverse this toxic process and may explain why coffee drinking is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes,” Those substances are Caffeine, Caffeic Acid, Chlorogenic acid
 
The possibility exists that perhaps coffee can block a substance called human islet amyloid polypeptide (hIAPP) from causing Type 2 diabetes by interfering with pacreatic function. It is interesting to note that a similar amyloid peptide is implicated in Alzheimer's disease.
 
Here is another interesting idea pertinent to this discussion:"Deposits of the abnormal protein damage and destroy insulin-producing "islet" cells in the pancreas. " You can read more about this in Science Daily...an old edition, but nonetheless significant: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070910095830.htm
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posted: January 16th, 2012 @ 12:44pm
Re: Can coffee prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease. New study gives some insight

Hi P: have there been similar studies but using decafe coffee?

 
posted: January 16th, 2012 @ 1:05pm
Re: Can coffee prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease. New study gives some insight

Here are 2 that I found related to decaf coffee....but do not specifically refer to amyloid plaques
posted: January 16th, 2012 @ 2:22pm
Re: Can coffee prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease. New study gives some insight

Caffeine was one of the three key ingredients  - so happy -  I am a coffee drinker!   The hope of a connection with amyloid deposit protection would be even better. 
posted: January 16th, 2012 @ 2:41pm
Re: Can coffee prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease. New study gives some insight

 Coffee in the morning is a must for me. too, Christine......,I think I'll start having some in the afternoon too!
posted: January 16th, 2012 @ 6:27pm
Re: Can coffee prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease. New study gives some insight

Thanks for posting this.

 

A day w/o coffee is a day I would not survive :-).

Having grown up in Europe I do tend to prefer my coffee stiff enough to allow the spoon to stand on it's own when I stir in my coconut oil.

Maybe I need a caffeine meter along with my AcuCheck Aviva?

reasonable coffee
posted: January 16th, 2012 @ 7:40pm
Re: Can coffee prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease. New study gives some insight

Interesting studies, but I'm estimating that 99% if the folks with T2 I see already drink coffee.  Of course, most of them also add sugar and flavored creamers to their coffee and look at me in horror when I suggest the possiblity of drinking it black.

I don't like anything coffee-flavored, not even mocha flavoring, so perhaps I just don't understand the allure of coffee. It seems to me that when we talk about addictions, coffee is one of the top culprits. Thoughts?
posted: January 16th, 2012 @ 7:42pm
Re: Can coffee prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease. New study gives some insight

If this turns out to be  a big advocated recommendation......you may have hit on a new idea for an invention! The "Bruce Coffee Meter"!
posted: January 17th, 2012 @ 2:16pm
Re: Can coffee prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease. New study gives some insight

I drink coffee everyday and have for many many years -large amounts years ago now 2-3 cups per day. It didn't spare me from Diabetes. Sorry folks I think there has to be another component besides the coffee. More studies needed maybe?