With 1.6 million new cases of type two diabetes each year, how much coffee should we really be drinking?
Coffee drinkers are used to being told off. Warnings to drink cups of joe in moderation are all too frequent. The bulk of researchers do — or at least did — think that coffee lovers could seek solace by clinging to one reassuring fact: coffee helps to ward off Type 2 diabetes. More…

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