IF YOU prefer doughnuts to dumb-bells, you have a high chance of developing diabetes later in life. But if you wash down those doughnuts with at least seven cups of coffee a day you are only half as likely to succumb.
The finding is “quite surprising and fairly dramatic”, says Bill Hartnett of UK Diabetes, although the patients’ group won’t be advising people to drink lots of coffee just yet. While there’s little evidence that one or two cups a day is harmful, some studies suggest that heavy coffee drinkers are unusually sensitive to pain, more prone to panic disorders and can also have higher blood pressure, which increases the risk of…
