OK I have heard this before - I drank the coffee (hate the tea) but I still ended up with diabetes -
guess that puts me in the other 77%.Now don't that just figure?
Kinda rots my socks that's for sure.

Being that we all have diabetes here this isn't too revalant. I also drank coffee and tea, so I am with you Hathani...

i drink coffee and tea also .

Lizzie!!! So good to see you back! We were all wondering where you were and if you were alright.. huggs :)

I dont drink either tea or coffee.. so where does that leave us now?

Once you have diabetes you can drink a gallon or coffee or tea a day and it wouldn't do a thing. BUT drinking 4 or more cups a day cuts your risk by 25% and it apparently has nothing to do with caffeine because it doesn't work with soda.

I wonder what it is from and if it really does work Is there anyone that drinks more than four cups a day and finds a difference?

I already said I did and it doesn't work, have heard this a long time ago also. Used to drink tea all day long-nothing. It's a bogus report thats all one of many!!

Goldi - we said it doesn't work once you're diabetic

Good.. then I dont need to worry about starting to drink either tea or coffee. I wonder why it is so different for a diabetic though.

Hummm, this is a bit strange, I have always drank more than 4 cups of tea or coffee a day, however, I do think that my diabetes2 was perhaps? brought on by having celiac disease. Well, not from having CD, but from having such a poor diet -- eating lots of potatoes and rice to make up from the loss of not having bread, pasta, snack bars, cakes, etc. I really put on the weight too. Oh well, have it now, so, no need to worry about it, however, I will tell my sister about this.

I am glad I dont drink tea or coffee. I always found it made me hyper. Oh well, I guess I dont need to worry. I think you are right, Safe about getting diabetes from gaining weight from all the carbs. That must be so hard trying to figure out a diet when you have celiac dfisease.

what about all the obese people walking around non-diabetic - so I guess that's not the answer.

No, I dont think it is the answer, Arline. The only thing I can think of is when people drink a lot of coffee, they get hyper energy which would burn off calories and the same if they drink a lot of tea or coffee, it seems to supress the appetite or you are drinking instead of eating.

I don't think that's it at all - I can drink and drink and still eat and eat. The research says its not the caffeine,

uh lets have 40 threads on this, yes, and no.....