Enjoy your cup of coffee and in the meantime lower your risk of getting type 2 diabetes. One interesting fact in the study done by the Harvard School of Public Health is that tea didn´t have the same protective abilities against the illness:

A study released by the Harvard School of Public Health has confirmed a direct relationship between the amount of coffee a person drinks and a lowered risk for type 2 diabetes.

According to the study, those who increased their daily coffee consumption by more than one cup per day over a four-year period experienced an 11 percent lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Those who decreased their consumption by more than a cup per day, on the other hand, increased their risk by 17 percent.

Researchers also collected the same data on tea consumption, but no correlation was found between the drink and the disease.

“I was really happy to see that the changes themselves were associated with risk,” said School of Public Health postdoctoral fellow Shilpa Bhupathiraju, the study's lead author. “Increasing coffee decreases the risk for type 2 diabetes, while decreasing it raises it.”

Featured image is from the article Fathers Day | Turkish Coffee by Stephanie Stamatis. Photography by Tara Pearce.