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Chocolate Lovers Lower Their Diabetes Risk

Chocolate Lovers Lower Their Diabetes Risk

'Attention chocolate lovers. Here's another good reason to indulge your chocolate addiction every day WITHOUT the guilt. Researchers have found that long-term consumption of chocolate is associated with a reduced diabetes risk.

Using data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Cohort study, researchers followed 7,802 participants for more than 13 years. ARIC is conducted and supported by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. Participants aged 45–64 years are drawn from households in North Carolina, Minnesota, Maryland, and Mississippi.

Participants were examined every three years and completed food frequency questions on their chocolate consumption.'


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Regular And Decaf Coffee Both Lower Diabetes Risk

Regular And Decaf Coffee Both Lower Diabetes Risk


'Lots of studies have looked at the question of whether coffee drinkers are less likely to develop diabetes. The short answer is yes they are.

But the question remains, why does coffee seem to lower diabetes risk? Is it the caffeine?

Researchers from Harvard wanted to know the answer. They conducted a meta-analysis of 28 prospective studies of coffee with 1,109,272 participants. Follow-up ranged from 10 months to 20 years.

Their results published in the American Diabetes Association journal Diabetes Care confirmed that drinking coffee was inversely associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes. And it's dose dependent. The more you drink, the lower the risk. For one cup a day the relative risk dropped to 92%; for three cups a day, to 79%; and for six cups a day it dropped to 67%.' 

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People with Psychosis Who Use Marijuana Have 2-1/2 Times Lower Death Rate

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'The more significant point of the study, which it never discusses, is that it demonstrates that psychiatric drugs are killing people at a rate as much as 13½ times the rest of the population!' 

'Marijuana has often been demonized as causing schizophrenia, though a cause-and-effect connection has never been shown. Now, though, a new study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research has documented that people diagnosed with schizophrenia who use marijuana—also called pot or cannabis—live longer than those who don’t, and alcohol use has no impact on lifespan. The authors concluded:'

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