Many studies that have been carried out previously have pointed out towards the fact that coffee helps in protecting people against the worrisome chronic condition of type II diabetes. Apparently, it has been reported that coffee consumption has an inverse effect on the chances of people developing diabetes.

Though, scientists have not been able to explain the reason behind coffee’s affect on a human bodies’ resistance towards glucose.

In order to look into this very phenomenon, a team of researchers at the School of Public Health in UCLA carried out a research involving 718 postmenopausal women. Half of the participants were diabetic, while the others were non-diabetic.

Following the study, it was found by scientists that women who drank four cups of caffeinated coffee everyday had higher levels of a protein known as sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG). The protein has been found to regulate the sex hormones of humans, which are known to play a vital role in the development of diabetes in people.

Women with higher levels of SHBG were also found to be twice as less likely to develop the chronic condition, when compared to women who did not consume coffee. It needs to be noted that women with higher levels of sex hormones were less likely to end up suffering from diabetes, rather than women who consumed more coffee.

The study concluded that coffee resulted in higher levels of SHBG, which played an influential factor in the development of diabetes in a person.