You might wonder how there could be any sort of connection between coffee and your blood sugar levels.
After all, coffee in its native form does not have any sugar in it! Wouldn't that make it one of the safest drinks you could possibly consume? Caffeine and Blood Sugar Levels: Unfortunately, coffee also tends to contain caffeine, a stimulant that is found in all kinds of different drinks.
But it always has similar effects, no matter where you get it from.
Caffeine has been shown to do more than just interrupt sleep, cause sweating and make people jittery.
It has also been shown in studies to cause people's blood sugar levels to soar, and also to cause their insulin levels to go crazy.
One problem this leads to is a lot of people actually consider coffee to be a diet drink.
Notwithstanding the fact that caffeine is literally a poison, millions of people drink it every day, either not realizing or not caring about this fact.
In truth, this bit of ignorance can completely derail long-term efforts to lose weight and keep it off.
After all, how can you even hope to maintain a consistent body weight, or even reasonably good health for that matter, when your insulin levels are zig-zagging this way and that? And the problem only continues to assert itself when a person with Type 2 diabetes has the desire to use diet pills.
Diet Pills: Many diabetics are overweight.
And instead of practicing good health habits, as would be more responsible, a lot of overweight people believe they can simply turn up their metabolism by taking diet pills which are often available over the counter.
The bad thing about these diet pills is that they typically use caffeine as their primary ingredient, as a way to turn up a person's metabolism.
While this may or may not be effective long-term, what it certainly causes is a serious issue with both blood sugar and insulin levels.
If you are trying to moderate these forces in your life, this is pretty much the worst thing you can do against all your best efforts.
Decaffeinated coffee: So it really is extremely counter-productive when you are trying to keep your insulin and blood sugar levels under control, if you are also drinking coffee.
However, this does not apply to decaffeinated coffee, which has actually been shown to do wonders for warding off Type 2 diabetes.
Decaf even works wonders at controlling the blood sugar and insulin problems of Type 2 diabetes after it has set in.
This dichotomy does bear further study in the future, but for now the facts seem fairly obvious.
Decaf coffee is great for diabetics to drink, but regular coffee is just bad news where weight loss, blood sugar and insulin levels are concerned.