Cinnamon
This old-world spice usually reaches most stomachs only when it's mixed with sugar and stuck to a roll.
Why it's healthy:
Cinnamon helps control your blood sugar, which influences your risk of heart disease.
In fact, USDA researchers found that people with type-2 diabetes who consumed 1 g of cinnamon a day for 6 weeks (about 1/4 teaspoon each day) significantly reduced not only their blood sugar but also their triglycerides and LDL (bad) cholesterol.
Credit the spice's active ingredients, methylhydroxychalcone polymers, which increase your cells' ability to metabolize sugar by up to 20 times.
How to eat it:
You don't need the fancy oils and extracts sold at vitamin stores; just sprinkle the stuff that's in your spice rack (or in the shaker at Starbucks) into your coffee or on your oatmeal.
Wow this great news! I love cinnamon!! Maybe this will help with my GD?
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I've heard this before and I'm trying to remember to sprinkle cinnamon on my cereal in the morning to give it a try. Thanks Kat for the info. I hope it helps so maybe I can get off insulin...My fingers are crossed.
__________________ DX 1994-told to lose weight by GYN,Suffered 12 years before seeking treatments: REDX 2006 by a family doc sent to endo July 31, 2006 and glad I went; Byetta, 2000mg Metformin, 28 units of levemir, fish oil, 1000mg calcium. Type 2 diabetic and high cholesterol dx March 05, psoriasis dx 1992. Married 20 yrs 2 kids: girl 19 yrs old and boy 17 yrs old.
I've heard this before and I'm trying to remember to sprinkle cinnamon on my cereal in the morning to give it a try. Thanks Kat for the info. I hope it helps so maybe I can get off insulin...My fingers are crossed.
I think I might just pop in Kat, thanks for the invite...Oh by the way, I keep forgetting to add the cinnamon to my cereal....I just don't know what I'm going to do with myself. My memory is really driving me crazy. I can't remember anything. I made a list for the grocery store the other day and left it at home. So I tried to remember what was on the list and of course, I forgot a few items....back this past summer, I was in the shower shaving my legs. When I got out, I realized that I shaved the same leg twice. What happened is that I lost my balance while I was shaving my second leg and put the first leg up to be shaved instead of the second one...Oh, I am losing it..LOL..
__________________ DX 1994-told to lose weight by GYN,Suffered 12 years before seeking treatments: REDX 2006 by a family doc sent to endo July 31, 2006 and glad I went; Byetta, 2000mg Metformin, 28 units of levemir, fish oil, 1000mg calcium. Type 2 diabetic and high cholesterol dx March 05, psoriasis dx 1992. Married 20 yrs 2 kids: girl 19 yrs old and boy 17 yrs old.
I made a cinnamon "tea" this morning to drink. I added 1/8 tsp gr cinnamon to hot water. It smelt great. It didn't taste too bad either. I figure I can drink that once a day and add cinnamon to my cereal or other foods.
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Hey Kat, I tried the cinnamon in my sugarfree crystal light pink lemonade and it was awesome. I never thought of doing that before. I also sprinkled some cinnamon on my apple at lunchtime and that was good too. Hopefully I will remember to sprinkle it on my grapenuts cereal in the morning...I keep forgetting to do that.
__________________ DX 1994-told to lose weight by GYN,Suffered 12 years before seeking treatments: REDX 2006 by a family doc sent to endo July 31, 2006 and glad I went; Byetta, 2000mg Metformin, 28 units of levemir, fish oil, 1000mg calcium. Type 2 diabetic and high cholesterol dx March 05, psoriasis dx 1992. Married 20 yrs 2 kids: girl 19 yrs old and boy 17 yrs old.
Hey Kat, I tried the cinnamon in my sugarfree crystal light pink lemonade and it was awesome. I never thought of doing that before. I also sprinkled some cinnamon on my apple at lunchtime and that was good too. Hopefully I will remember to sprinkle it on my grapenuts cereal in the morning...I keep forgetting to do that.
Yes, it's GREAT with lemonade. Try real lemonade, instead of CL... Lemon Juice helps to lower the glycemic load of meals. It's not 'quite' as powerful as vinegar, but it tastes better (and CL probably has no effect.)
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Originally Posted by SandV
I made a cinnamon "tea" this morning to drink. I added 1/8 tsp gr cinnamon to hot water. It smelt great. It didn't taste too bad either. I figure I can drink that once a day and add cinnamon to my cereal or other foods.
Thanks Kat and oh by the way, I forgot to sprinkle the cinnamon on my cereal again this morning...this darn memory thing is about to drive me nuts...crap..Oh and I will also try real lemonade. I like drinking just lemon water too...its so good...I just wish I could remember to try it on my cereal, but I just can't seem to do so. Very frustrating...lol
__________________ DX 1994-told to lose weight by GYN,Suffered 12 years before seeking treatments: REDX 2006 by a family doc sent to endo July 31, 2006 and glad I went; Byetta, 2000mg Metformin, 28 units of levemir, fish oil, 1000mg calcium. Type 2 diabetic and high cholesterol dx March 05, psoriasis dx 1992. Married 20 yrs 2 kids: girl 19 yrs old and boy 17 yrs old.
LOL...I may have too...You'd be proud of me, I remembered this morning. I can't wait to see if it really helps my IR...I sure hope so. Thanks Kat for the idea...LOL
__________________ DX 1994-told to lose weight by GYN,Suffered 12 years before seeking treatments: REDX 2006 by a family doc sent to endo July 31, 2006 and glad I went; Byetta, 2000mg Metformin, 28 units of levemir, fish oil, 1000mg calcium. Type 2 diabetic and high cholesterol dx March 05, psoriasis dx 1992. Married 20 yrs 2 kids: girl 19 yrs old and boy 17 yrs old.
Cinnamon and Type II Diabetes 
