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Drinking coffee may help ward off type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study by Harvard researchers.
Researchers are not sure why drinking coffee decreases the diabetes risk. According to Hu, caffeine’s short term effects are to raise blood sugar and increase energy expenditure. However, he cautions that the long-term effects are still unknown.
“Although this is good news for coffee drinkers, for people who don’t drink coffee, I don’t think necessarily that is encouragement for them to start drinking,” Hu said.
The libation-loving French got sobering news about the consequences of drinking and driving. An appeals court in the eastern city of Nancy late last month upheld criminal charges against a couple who failed to prevent a drunken dinner guest from driving home - he killed himself and a family of...
Just hours earlier, U.S. forces made a similar blunder, killing six other children along with two adults, members of a village family in neighboring Paktia province. That raid was supposed to take out a powerful clergyman named Mullah Jalani, who was accused by the Pentagon of operating training camps for...