Yet another study on the benefits of coffee was just published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. This ones demonstrates how this salubrious beverage improves insulin function and fatty liver by reducing inflammation. The authors observe:
“Epidemiological surveys have demonstrated that habitual coffee consumption reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes. The aim of this work was to study the antidiabetic effect of coffee and caffeine in spontaneously diabetic KK-Ay mice.”
The mice were not taken to Starbucks for mini espresso shots, but were…
“…given regular drinking water (controls) or 2-fold diluted coffee for 5 weeks.”
The results were pretty amazing:
“Coffee ingestion ameliorated the development of hyperglycemia and improved insulin sensitivity. White adipose tissue mRNA levels of inflammatory cytokines (MCP-1, IL-6, and TNFα), adipose tissue MCP-1 concentration, and serum IL-6 concentration in the coffee group were lower than the control group. Moreover, coffee ingestion improved the fatty liver.”
The authors summed up their findings by stating:
“…coffee exerts a suppressive effect on hyperglycemia by improving insulin sensitivity, partly due to reducing inflammatory cytokine expression and improving fatty liver. Moreover, caffeine may be one of the effective antidiabetic compounds in coffee.”
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Metabolic syndrome crosses the line to type 2 diabetes when insulin resistance worsens to the point that the pancreas can no longer increase insulin production to yet higher levels. 
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