Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener

Is this a valid study? (most dietary studies are pretty poor)<p>Is it the lack of sugar or is that people who don&#x27;t put sugar in their coffee have a bunch of other things they do? Maybe people who don&#x27;t put sugar in their coffee are less likely to eat donuts. Maybe people who don&#x27;t put sugar in their coffee are more likely to workout. Maybe people who don&#x27;t put sugar in their coffee are more like to have better genes for T2D and that same collection of genes makes the predisposed to not put sugar in their coffee.<p>I&#x27;m not saying sugar isn&#x27;t bad. It is! (I don&#x27;t put sugar in my coffee) But, 1 teaspoon a cup doesn&#x27;t sound like enough to have a measurable impact without knowing that everything else about the people is the same.<p>Reminds me this podcast<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcast.clearerthinking.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;252&#x2F;gordon-guyatt-evidence-based-medicine-and-its-discontents&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;podcast.clearerthinking.org&#x2F;episode&#x2F;252&#x2F;gordon-guyat...</a>

Given that this is an association study, I like to interpret it as if you drink coffee and you often add sweetener, you may be more likely to develop type w diabetes than others who drink coffee and don&#x27;t add sweetener.<p>Not adding sweetener because it&#x27;s associated with type 2 diabetes is probably less protective than being the type of person who naturally didn&#x27;t add sweeteners.<p>Sugar in my soda, cream in my coffee thanks.

Somewhat related post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42625193">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=42625193</a><p>It seems like having sugary drinks is not just bad for you, but like <i>really</i> bad for you.

Breaking: sugar causes diabetes

I kind of wonder if this is just caffeine and higher metabolism, weight loss.<p>Like caffeine might work. but meth might work too.

It&#x27;s really deceptive how the title of this post implies causality despite the study not stating a causal link exists.<p>&quot;Coffee reduces risk of T2DM&quot; is much different than the author&#x27;s conclusion: &quot;Adding sugar or artificial sweetener significantly attenuates the magnitude of the inverse association between higher coffee consumption and T2D risk, whereas the use of cream do not alter the inverse association.&quot; The key word there is &quot;association.&quot;

It would be interesting to analyze a dataset of commercially sold prepared &quot;coffee&quot; drinks from vendors like Starbucks to see how many are actually coffee, versus coffee-flavored soft drinks, and how this changed over the last few decades.

I stopped coffee. My sugar levels went up and my weight went up too. Coffee kept me working hard. It also affected my bowel movement negatively. So no coffee meant lazier, more nutritious lifestyle.

I’ve always wondered if these coffee benefits apply to consumption of instant coffee also which is dried and processed, or just brewed coffee which is not processed post-brewing.

Coffee reduces risk of Type 2 Diabetes; okay to add cream, but not sweetener.<p>What?, no, it is not ok to add cream or sweetener. It is permissible to add more coffee, a &quot;shot in the dark&quot;, coffee with a couple of shots of espresso, or just a mug of espresso. Fresh made,carefully selected beens roasted by obsessives,stove top espresso machine that isn&#x27;t parsimonious, and produces a full measure, once a day, early in the day. The idea of anything else, produces in me what must be like a gallick umbrage, but of course not so all encompassing and consuming as bieng french.

Something that my medical professor used to tell us was that sugar and salt are man made things (processed sugar). And not something we found in nature and something that our bodies are not evolutionary developed to handle. So too much of salt and sugar was a good thing.<p>So which makes sense