Is it ok to drink coffee with diabetes?
Are coffee and tea bad for a diabetic? Probably. Many recent studies show that drinks containing caffeine accelerate the aging process and cause headaches, heart trouble, and genetic damage. It stands to reason that any chemical that does all of that is not going to help diabetes. But what makes it a specific diabetes negative is its tendency to raise the blood sugar. Caffeine is not just found in coffee (150 milligrams per cup) and tea (50 milligrams per cup) but in cola drinks (45 milligrams per can), cocoa (15 milligrams per cup), and even in most headache tablets (35 milligrams). In that peculiar way the government has of legislating the use of harmful substances (ketchup is required to have sugar in it), cola cannot legally be called cola if it doesn't contain caffeine! Besides the problems associated with caffeine, coffee has a few distinctive problems, the most disturbing of which was revealed in a Harvard University study which implicates coffee in cancer of our b...