Caffeine ups blood sugar level in diabetics: study

[TechBear_Seattle]

Source: Reuters via Yahoo News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cutting down on caffeine could help people with the most common form of diabetes better control their blood sugar levels, researchers said on Monday.

Giving caffeine to a small group of people with type 2 diabetes caused their levels of the blood sugar glucose to rise through the day, especially after meals, researchers at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, found.

"Caffeine appears to disrupt glucose metabolism in a way that could be harmful to people with type-2 diabetes," James Lane, a Duke medical psychologist who led the study, said in a telephone interview.

Caffeine is found in coffee, tea and many soft drinks.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080128/sc_nm/diabetes_caffeine_dc

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One of my last dietary vices since being diagnosed with Type-2 diabetes eight years ago. :cry:

[dkf]

1. oh oh.

And I put a lot of sugar in my coffee too.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Apparently, the effect is unnoticeable in healthy people

In folks like me, however, an 8% rise in blood sugar is not trivial. Worse, caffeine is highly addictive (see here) and many people suffer genuine physiological problems when they try to quit. I know that I do, which is why I've been reluctant to give it up.

Now, though....


Edited for spelling

[dkf]

4. Unfortunately it runs in both sides of my family.

My grandfather and uncle on Dad's side both inject insulin. My other uncle should be but he refuses so he is just on glipizide.

On my Mom's side, my grandfather also had it, but he wasn't that bad.

[harmonicon]

10. yeah... "uh-oh" was my first thought too

I don't have it, but my dad was diagnosed a few years ago.... after going to the hospital with strange symptoms. I guess his blood sugar was literally higher than the measuring equipment at the med-center was capable of, so he was rushed there in an ambulance. He left the hospital after about a week with a very specific diet, which cut out all alcohol (he was a regular wine and whisky drinker), but he said that was fine, because he could still have COFFEE. I asked him if he could still have coffee.. he said yeah, it was no problem.... now just to find every copy of this study and keep it away from dad's doctor.

[hobbit709]

2. Wonder what I'm doing wrong then

I'm a caffeine based lifeform and my glucose count stays well within the limits. On my last doctor visit, she took me OFF one of my twice daily glipizides and left me on the metformin. I certainly don't exercise enough and while I am losing weight, I'm still WAY over what I should weigh.

[lynnertic]

7. "caffeine based lifeform"

I have to use that!!
:rofl:
LOL

[pokercat999]

5. I've changed my mind

I thought there was no god, now I know there is and it's just there to constantly fuck with us. :evilgrin:

[yardwork]

6. LOL! I just spilled my coffee.

[Eurobabe]

8. I quit coffee cold turkey after a 6-8 c. a day habit for 20 yrs.

I had a heart racing episode in 2003 and was not sleeping well at night. All of that is gone now. I stopped drinking coffee from one day to the next, the ER visit scared the hell out of me. Had all heart functions checked, nothing -- it was a caffeine overdose.

Drinking decaf suits me fine.

I have hardly any vices anymore, I am basically boring. :rofl: But healthier. :hi:

[jwirr]

9. Thank you for the imfo. I am also Type 2.

[meow2u3]

11. Looks like I'm going to have to switch to decaf. I'm Type 2, too

I ran out of coffee, and all of a sudden, my blood sugar levels have dropped to near normal. :)