The researchers revealed that regularly drinking coffee doesn’t increase your chances of developing lifestyle diseases like type 2 diabetes and obesity.

For the study, scientists studied the genes of more than 93,000 people in Denmark and determined that those that had genes that affect our cravings for coffee and actually drank coffee were no more likely to develop lifestyle diseases than those who weren’t big coffee drinkers.

 “Increased coffee intake is strongly associated with decreased risk of diabetes,” he says. “But then when we use genetics that determine how much coffee a person is drinking, coffee intake is not at all related to diabetes risk or other lifestyle diseases of conditions.”

“We can see that the coffee genes are surprisingly not associated with a risk of developing Type 2 diabetes or obesity,” added Boerge Nordestgaard, clinical professor from University of Copenhagen.

So experts suggest drinking your cup of coffee worry free as it neither increases nor decreases the risk of lifestyle diseases.

By Lizitha