Unlike what most people about the harm of drinking coffee, a new research from Greece show that drinking at 1.5 or more cups of coffee daily actually lowers the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The study about coffee has been ongoing for 10 years now and with 1, 400 both men and women participants shows what coffee can really do in contrast to its many negative reports. In the year 2001 and 2002, men and women not under 18 of age were selected in a study of coffee drinking and its effect to people. It shows that 816 of participants that were deemed to be a casual coffee drinker that consumes less than 1.5 cups of coffee a day in which 385 participants were the habitual coffee drinker were 1.5 or more cups of coffee was being consumed daily and 239 of the participants did not drink a coffee at all.