Cinnamon and Diabetes
There is a new research study being conducted regarding cinnamon and diabetes. Recent results show that just a teaspoon a day of cinnamon can help prevent the onset of diabetes. The cinnamon spice is said that it could help millions of people who suffer from Type 2 diabetes.
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This is the non-insulin dependent diabetes. Type 2 diabetes usually develops in middle aged people and prematurely kills 100 million people all over the world each year.
When diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, it causes your cells to lose their ability to respond to the insulin produced by your body. The insulin releases a hormone that tells your body to remove excess glucose (sugar) in the bloodstream. Once the glucose begins to build up in your blood, you will witness tiredness, weight loss and blurred vision as some of the symptoms you will have. If the case is very extreme, blindness, heart disease and premature death may occur.
In August of 2000, the Agricultural Research Unit located in Maryland published for the first time about cinnamon and diabetes. Cinnamon is known to rekindle the ability of diabetic’s fat cells, which allow it to respond to the insulin in your body; greater amounts of glucose in the blood are removed. What allows cinnamon to perform this miraculous benefit is MHCP.
During the study of cinnamon and diabetes, mice were given MHCP and their blood sugar levels fell dramatically. This was then tested on humans believing that it will have the same dramatic effect of reducing insulin tolerance in people. It is recommended that diabetics with Type 2 disease should take a quarter to one full teaspoon of cinnamon everyday. Many of the people living with Type 2 diabetes have found a new feeling of well being because of including cinnamon in their diet.
Cinnamon has always been known as an energizing spice and is thought to even help non-diabetics as an energizing tonic and not to mention, as a prevention of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a slow disease and even though you may not notice symptoms of it now, you may still have some degree of elevated insulin resistance.
Being enriched with magnesium, cinnamon is essential for maintaining your bone density, electrolyte balance, certain enzyme functions and a lot of other crucial biochemical processes. Magnesium is also known to be linked to the more dramatic forms of diabetes that are diagnosed earlier in life.