Posted by Mistermindmasta on July 18, 2006, at 22:31:56 [reposted on July 26, 2006, at 7:54:37 | original URL]
In reply to Re: caffeine is bad » Mistermindmasta, posted by dessbee on July 14, 2006, at 5:52:26
Yeah, I understood your point correctly, I was just running off ranting about a related topic.
I've read a bunch of studies showing that coffee is good for diabetes, and I still just have a really hard time believing the researchers reasoning.Basically, I'm just questioning the validity of the science. Does decaf coffee REALLY protect against diabetes? Or is it that people who drink decaf are likely to be healthier and general? In that case, the decaf doesn't protect, it's the persons lifestyle that protects, which also is the reason they drink decaf in the first place.
To put it another way, which came first, the chicken or the egg? The researchers imply that decaf coffee protects against diabetes because of the antioxidants; that idea may be misleading because it might be the person's lifestyle that is protective, not the flavenoids.
I am frustrated when scientists do a study and come to a conclusion without really looking into the confounding factors and allowing for the possibility of an erroneous association.
> I am not sure you understood my point correctly.
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> The study showed that decaffed coffee (no caffeine) protected against diabetes. Regular coffe only gave moderate protection. The reason is probably because bioflavonoids in coffee protects beta-cells and caffeine stresses beta-cells.
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> The study really complies with your oppinion that caffeine is bad.
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