My husband came home yesterday telling me that I should drink coffee! He had heard the News in this article on the radio. (I have never drank very much coffee, so I don't miss it.....but, I would like a cup of decaf from time to time.)

What do you guys think of this? I was totally surprised!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004...html?cmp=EM8707

Well...this study seems to indicate that heavy coffee drinking (defined as 6 or more cups per day..yikes!) might decrease your chances of developing diabetes but it doesn't say what effect, if any, it has on those who have already developed the disease.
I have to say that my MIL and FIL were both fairly heavy coffee drinkers (Dutch coffee!) and they both still developed type 2 diabetes in their later years. I was also a very heavy coffee drinker in college and a few years afterwards (probably a pot a day), and still developed type 2 diabetes. I guess that a 50% reduction in risk doesn't mean that no heavy coffee drinkers will get diabetes and we just happened to not get the benefit of it.

I was a minimum 8 cups a day coffee drinker (not to mention the diet coke) for years before I developed Type 2 diabetes... It certainly didn't help me

Luscious