Sydney, Dec 15 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There is good news for all the tea and coffee lovers, as studies have indicated that drinking three to four cups of coffee per day was associated with a 25 percent lower risk of diabetes than drinking two cups or less per day, according to Dr. Rachel Huxley of the George Institute for International Health in Sydney, Australia, and her colleagues. These results were arrived at, after a review of 18 studies.

And if you drink decaf coffee and tea, then also the results are same, and the decaf versions also reduce the risk of diabetes by the same percentages as the normal regular versions. “If such beneficial effects were observed in interventional trials to be real, the implications for the millions of individuals who have diabetes, or who are at future risk of developing it, would be substantial,” the researchers concluded in the latest issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.

“Every additional cup of coffee consumed in a day was associated with a 7 percent reduction in the excess risk of diabetes,” Rachel Huxley of The University of Sydney in Australia and an international team of colleagues wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.