A recent research has linked consumption of coffee to reduction in obesity risk. Consumption of coffee reduces the risk of diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes which bears a intimate association with obesity.

However, the mechanism to make the relationship evident hasn't been established and no studies have pondered into whether the timing of coffee drinking poses an influence on this effect.

The study involved researchers to analyze 69,532 French women participating in a large European nutrition study. The women involved were in the age bracket of 41 to 72 years when they were enrolled in the study, and were followed for 11 years, on average.

Over the observation period, 1,415 of them developed type 2 diabetes. Overall, those who drank at least three cups of coffee daily were 27 percent less susceptible to fall in prey for diabetes.

However, it is reported that on observing the timing of coffee intake, the researchers discovered that only lunchtime coffee drinking decreased type 2 diabetes risk; women who drank more than a cup with lunch every day were 33 percent less likely to develop diabetes.

Lunchtime coffee benefits could have some link with timing, or they might be associated to the types of food that people eat at lunch, the researchers suggested.