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Question about other habits - Is coffee bad for diabetes?
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Not really, no. Although caffeine can sometimes increase blood glucose slightly, it's usually not a massive amount. Drinking a sensible amount of coffee is also slightly beneficial for your health, and having caffeine in your blood when you exercise causes you to metabolise more fat than glucose, which is helpful if you're using exercise to control your weight rather than your BG. It also helps you to work out for longer.
There's also no real correlation between coffee consumption and blood pressure either, so it shouldn't affect cardiovascular health.
The only real problems from coffee are that excessive consumption will dehydrate you, and also can cause caffeine addiction. I actually felt pretty tired and crappy for some time over Christmas when I was home - because at work I usually have 4-5 cups a day of the stuff and then went cold turkey. I would wake up with a headache in the morning, but amazingly just one coffee got rid of it far quicker than any pain killers.
