Study: Drinking coffee before breakfast may up diabetes risk
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 05-10-2020
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Their findings highlight that one night of disrupted sleep did not worsen participants' blood glucose/insulin responses at breakfast when compared to a normal night's sleep.
Past research suggests that losing many hours of sleep over one and/or multiple nights can have negative metabolic effects, so it is reassuring to learn that a single night of fragmented sleep (e.g. due to insomnia, noise disturbance or a new baby) does not have the same effect. However, strong black coffee consumed before breakfast substantially increased the blood glucose response to breakfast by around 50 per cent.
This new study reveals that the common remedy of drinking coffee after a bad night's sleep may solve the problem of feeling sleepy but could create another by limiting your body's ability to tolerate the sugar in your breakfast.
"We know that nearly half of us will wake in the morning and, before doing anything else, drink coffee - intuitively the more tired we feel, the stronger the coffee," the authors wrote.