Happy National Coffee Day: Let’s Celebrate With Some 5 Fun Facts

Coffee is consumed by 90% of adults daily and opinions on the health benefits of coffee are constantly changing. However, there are ways coffee can be beneficial in addition to the perks of the wake-me-up:

1.Coffee consumption has been linked to reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Researches at UCLA have studied that coffee consumption increases plasma levels of the protein sex hormone-binging globulin (SHBG), which is responsible for the the biological activity of testosterone and estrogen; these hormones have a direct correlation with the development of type 2 diabetes. A recent study at Harvard with 120,000 men and women showed hose who increased the amount of caffeinated coffee they drank per day by more than one 8-ounce cup, on average, were 11 percent less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those whose coffee habits stayed the same. The study also showed that the ones who decreased their daily intake were 17 percent more likely to develop diabetes.

Matusheski, Nathan V., Siamak Bidel, and Jaakko Tuomilehto. “Coffee and Type 2 Diabetes Risk.” Chu/Coffee Coffee (2012): 141-79. Print