Coffea Arabica, cup o'joe, java, brew, jamocha, mud, caffiene, cafe au lait, espresso, cappachino, latte, breve - you name it - I LOVE it. They CANNOT have my coffee!

It used to be that coffee lowered your risk of type 2 diabetes. Go ahead and get hooked on it, but once you get that diagnosis, now you gotta go cold turkey.

I'm sure you've seen the news to which I'm referring. It's also here.

Quit drinking coffee and lower your blood sugar by up to 8 percent. That's the gist of it and all that made it into many news digests. Once again, looking for a more complete news story and reading it with a critical eye was worth the effort.

The study was done on 10 patients for all of 72 hours. They also didn't drink coffee, they took caffeine capsules equal to about four cups of coffee. Coffee is supposed to be full of antioxidants which might change the way the caffiene affects our blood sugar. I'm no medical researcher but coffee has to be a bit different than caffeine capsules.

Lastly, "The patients all had the same nutrition drink for breakfast but chose their own food for lunch and dinner." Needless to say, this could GREATLY affect their blood sugars.

So, I'll try to forget about this study until my endocrinologist tells me to lay off the coffee. Whew.

The most interesting part of this study, in my opinion was that it used continuous glucose monitoring devices (CGM).

But if you've followed any CGM experiences in the online community, such as the ones at DiabetesMine or Six Until Me then you will really be skeptical of an 8 percent difference really meaning anything.

Guess I'll go ahead and continue my 2 cup a day habit and when I wean my daughter, I'll go right back up to my 4-6 cups a day. Call me dependent, but I love my caffiene!