Coffee once bad is now good

Coffee is just one of a number of foods and beverages that were once considered bad for you but are now good for you again.

Researchers said Monday that women who drank six or more cups of decaffeinated coffee a day were 33 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes, a disease that affects more than 18 million Americans.

The study, which followed other research this month showing that coffee my help prevent cirrhosis, was published on Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine

But while the findings sound encouraging for avid coffee drinkers, the American Diabetes Association is warning against reading too much into the data.

Dr. Luciano Koladny, an endocrinologist with the American Diabetes Association and Health Partners Clinics, says it's important not to change your diet based on this one study. Still, he says, "There have been at least eight or nine studies in the past that have shown coffee has decreased the instance of diabetes." Experts just aren't sure why.


You can read about this in the Archives of Internal Medicine.