i found this about cinamon i wondered if anyone here does this?
i found this interesting about cinamon & type 2 diabities
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American scientists have claimed that a teaspoon of cinnamon a day may help prevent the onset of diabetes.
The common spice could help millions of sufferers of Type II, non-insulin dependent diabetes. This condition usually develops in middle-age and prematurely kills 100 million people around the world every year. Type II diabetes causes cells to lose their ability to respond to insulin, the hormone that tells the body to remove excess glucose in the bloodstream. If glucose builds up in the blood, tiredness, weight-loss and blurred vision are some of the resulting symptoms. In extreme cases this can lead to blindness, heart disease and premature death.
Data from the Agricultural Research Unit in Maryland was first published in the New Scientist in August 2000. The researchers found that cinnamon rekindled the ability of fat cells in diabetics to respond to insulin and greatly increased glucose removal. It is believed that a substance in cinnamon called MHCP is the main reason for its beneficial results.
When mice were given MHCP, their glucose levels fell dramatically and tests on humans have begun this year. The researchers are so confident that cinnamon will have the same dramatic effect of reducing insulin tolerance in humans they recommend that type II diabetics should take a quarter to one full teaspoon of cinnamon per day.
Many Type II diabetics have already found a new feeling of well-being and improvement in health by using this simple cinnamon supplementation in their diet. Cinnamon has long been known as an "energizing" spice, and it is likely that increasing the intake of this common and cheaply available food will benefit even non-diabetics, if used as a daily energizing tonic.
The insulin resistance that leads to type II diabetes develops relatively slowly as the body ages and even those who have not yet experienced severe symptoms may have some degree of elevated insulin resistance.
Cinnamon is also a rich source of magnesium, which is essential for maintaining bone density, electrolyte balance, certain enzyme functions and many other crucial biochemical processes. Magnesium is also linked to the more dramatic forms of diabetes that occur earlier in life.
Much research has been carried out to establish a metabolic defect in diabetics that prevents the absorption of magnesium. As cinnamon provides a readily available source of MHCP, magnesium and possibly other beneficial substances it seems like a very cost-effective way of offsetting future health problems related to glucose/insulin imbalances as we grow older.
Cinnamon can be bought inexpensively in a convenient powdered form at almost any food shop and taking it couldn't be easier: just use up to a teaspoon a day in milkshakes or fruit juice.
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American scientists have claimed that a teaspoon of cinnamon a day may help prevent the onset of diabetes.
The common spice could help millions of sufferers of Type II, non-insulin dependent diabetes. This condition usually develops in middle-age and prematurely kills 100 million people around the world every year. Type II diabetes causes cells to lose their ability to respond to insulin, the hormone that tells the body to remove excess glucose in the bloodstream. If glucose builds up in the blood, tiredness, weight-loss and blurred vision are some of the resulting symptoms. In extreme cases this can lead to blindness, heart disease and premature death.
Data from the Agricultural Research Unit in Maryland was first published in the New Scientist in August 2000. The researchers found that cinnamon rekindled the ability of fat cells in diabetics to respond to insulin and greatly increased glucose removal. It is believed that a substance in cinnamon called MHCP is the main reason for its beneficial results.
When mice were given MHCP, their glucose levels fell dramatically and tests on humans have begun this year. The researchers are so confident that cinnamon will have the same dramatic effect of reducing insulin tolerance in humans they recommend that type II diabetics should take a quarter to one full teaspoon of cinnamon per day.
Many Type II diabetics have already found a new feeling of well-being and improvement in health by using this simple cinnamon supplementation in their diet. Cinnamon has long been known as an "energizing" spice, and it is likely that increasing the intake of this common and cheaply available food will benefit even non-diabetics, if used as a daily energizing tonic.
The insulin resistance that leads to type II diabetes develops relatively slowly as the body ages and even those who have not yet experienced severe symptoms may have some degree of elevated insulin resistance.
Cinnamon is also a rich source of magnesium, which is essential for maintaining bone density, electrolyte balance, certain enzyme functions and many other crucial biochemical processes. Magnesium is also linked to the more dramatic forms of diabetes that occur earlier in life.
Much research has been carried out to establish a metabolic defect in diabetics that prevents the absorption of magnesium. As cinnamon provides a readily available source of MHCP, magnesium and possibly other beneficial substances it seems like a very cost-effective way of offsetting future health problems related to glucose/insulin imbalances as we grow older.
Cinnamon can be bought inexpensively in a convenient powdered form at almost any food shop and taking it couldn't be easier: just use up to a teaspoon a day in milkshakes or fruit juice.
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Permalink Reply by ken wong on
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I've tried bitter melon and its worked to some degree. I'll try this too. I'll try anything to lower my BG levels!!! I don't want the insulin option.
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Permalink Reply by joanne cypher on
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hi
please let me know how it goes im quite intregide by this -
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Permalink Reply by Jeanette on -
I take bitter melon, one a day. How many do you take?
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Permalink Reply by Mel Wright on -
About the cinnamon story:: I've never heard anyone say he got any blood-sugar control help using cennimon. Where is the science? Besides, what diabetic would drink fruit juice? It's consintrated sugar.
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Permalink Reply by Ron Clark on -
Mel....just try, what's gonna hurt?....always wanting to know all the details, often leads to living "inside our heads" rather than experiencing life.....your call.....there are other ways to take cinnemin than in juice....be creative.....one woman capsized it.....so?
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Permalink Reply by richard fischer on -
I buy the parade brand sugar free oatmeal and add it to the oatmeal.It works and you can be sure I would not waste my time if it had no benefit.My life is precious and would highly recomend it.
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ive no idea i copied this of a web site i found
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Permalink Reply by Jeanette on
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With the Cinnamon I have found it to be easier to take two capsules daily. This way you won't become tired of the same ole thing...
Jeanette here in Weeki Wachee -
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Permalink Reply by Varu on -
hey yeah i heard about that to0 and it works !! i take 2 100g capsules once a day at my meal. it really does work tho !!!
try it and see if it works for yo0h to0
the only thing is, i dont know how differently it will work for type1's and type 2's. -
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Permalink Reply by greg on -
I heard cinnimon only works for people within a healty blood sugar range, that it does not lower high readings
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Permalink Reply by Jimmie B on -
Well that explains it. I was in my pharmacy after being diagnosed (you know, shopping) and found a big container of Cinnamon next to the other diabetes supplements. that was a little confusing-now I know Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Mel Wright on
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"Fruit juice!" Are you for real? If you want to consume something that will send your glucose into orbit, drink fruit juice-- any kind. Now, go drink some, then check your BG level.
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