from British Journal of Nutrition
A cup of coffee first thing in the morning
is a ritual for a lot of people. That may
help you wake up, but it could also be
harmful. Research published in the British
Journal of Nutrition suggests coffee before
breakfast could impair blood sugar levels.
Authors asked a group of healthy men and
women to try three experiments. In one,
after a normal night’s sleep, they were
asked to consume a sugary drink first
thing in the morning—about the same
nutritional level as a typical breakfast. On
another occasion, after a disrupted night’s
sleep, they were given the same sugary
drink. On a third instance, they were first
given a strong black coffee a half-hour
before the sugary drink. Coffee
beforehand hiked the blood sugar
response to breakfast by fifty percent!