Caffeine vs Type II Diabetes

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday January 6, 2004 @02:55AM from the morning-pot-of-joe dept.

OctaneZ writes "New research out of the Harvard School of Public Health indicates that coffee may lower your risk of Type II Diabetes. Men who drank 6 cups of coffee a day lowered their risk by 50%, while womens risk dropped 30%. The release also includes audio discussions about the suprising findings."

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Great news! by grub · 2004-01-06 02:55 · Score: 5, Funny

That's super news!

Being that there's coffee in Kahlua I can rest assured that when I have cirrhosis induced jaundice I won't have to suffer through the ravages of Type II diabetes!

oh.. there are only 2 Fs in "Caffeine", Taco. Please get it right when you dupe the story in 2 hours.

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1. Re:Great news! by truthsearch · 2004-01-06 03:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  there are only 2 Fs in "Caffeine", Taco. Please get it right when you dupe the story in 2 hours.
  
  He's a little jittery from his morning cups of coffee, causinng hhimm to hitt some kkeys tooo manny ttimes.
  
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meanwhile.. by bsDaemon · 2004-01-06 02:57 · Score: 5, Funny

men's risk of heart-attack raised 70% and woman's height decreased 25%
Lowered risk. by mshiltonj · 2004-01-06 02:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Men who drank 6 cups of coffee a day lowered their risk by 50%

I drink so much coffee, the people around me must have a lowered risk of diabetes, just by proximity.

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Nuts!!! by moehoward · 2004-01-06 03:02 · Score: 4, Funny

I seem to recall a slashdot story from about a year ago that claimed that drinking so much caffeine caused your testicles to shrink.

Aren't there other, more healthy ways to lower your risk of diabetes? Like exercise and eating right? Or is that one of those "things you are not allowed to say" on slashdot?

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Re:cool by TopShelf · 2004-01-06 03:02 · Score: 4, Funny

I thought it was just that the coffee killed them off so fast they didn't have time to develop the diabetes...

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Sorry, has to be said... by RevMike · 2004-01-06 04:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Caffeine has numerous side effects that are negative; the degree to which each effect troubles any one individual varies. These are what researchers have found in the lab.

Side effects of caffeine include: ... anger ...

Anger is perhaps the symptom I've seen the most in other people.

Who the hell do you think you are complaining that we coffee drinkers are angry! Why don't you get off your FSCKING high horse, you god-damned pissant. You can take your whiney little opinions about angry coffee drinkes and stick them where the sun doesn't shine! Bloody health food eating, toad sucking, argument for post-natal abortion.