Cinnamon Helps Stop Type 2 Diabetes

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Cinnamon Helps Stop Type 2 DiabetesBy Mike HodgeThe AntiWrinkle Shophttp://chetday.com/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?aging

American scientists have claimed that a teaspoon ofcinnamon a day may help prevent the onset of diabetes.The common spice could help millions of sufferers ofType II, non-insulin dependent diabetes. This condition

usually develops in middle-age and prematurely kills100 million people around the world every year. Type IIdiabetes causes cells to lose their ability to respondto insulin, the hormone that tells the body to remove

excess glucose in the bloodstream. If glucose builds upin the blood, tiredness, weight-loss and blurred visionare some of the resulting symptoms. In extreme casesthis can lead to blindness, heart disease and premature

death.Data from the Agricultural Research Unit in Marylandwas first published in the New Scientist in August2000. The researchers found that cinnamon rekindled theability of fat cells in diabetics to respond to insulin

and greatly increased glucose removal. It is believedthat a substance in cinnamon called MHCP is the mainreason for its beneficial results.When mice were given MHCP, their glucose levels felldramatically and tests on humans have begun this year.

The researchers are so confident that cinnamon willhave the same dramatic effect of reducing insulintolerance in humans they recommend that type IIdiabetics should take a quarter to one full teaspoon of

cinnamon per day.Many Type II diabetics have already found a new feelingof well-being and improvement in health by using thissimple cinnamon supplementation in their diet. Cinnamonhas long been known as an " energizing " spice, and it is

likely that increasing the intake of this common andcheaply available food will benefit even non-diabetics,if used as a daily energizing tonic.The insulin resistance that leads to type II diabetesdevelops relatively slowly as the body ages and even

those who have not yet experienced severe symptoms mayhave some degree of elevated insulin resistance.Cinnamon is also a rich source of magnesium, which isessential for maintaining bone density, electrolyte

balance, certain enzyme functions and many othercrucial biochemical processes. Magnesium is also linkedto the more dramatic forms of diabetes that occurearlier in life.Much research has been carried out to establish a

metabolic defect in diabetics that prevents theabsorption of magnesium. As cinnamon provides a readilyavailable source of MHCP, magnesium and possibly otherbeneficial substances it seems like a very cost-

effective way of offsetting future health problemsrelated to glucose/insulin imbalances as we grow older.Cinnamon can be bought inexpensively in a convenientpowdered form at almost any food shop and taking it

couldn't be easier: just use up to a teaspoon a day inmilkshakes or fruit juice.I personally take a half-teaspoon daily in this wayevery morning and can confirm a distinct energybenefit. Diabetics should always inform their doctor

before taking cinnamon as it may affect medicationrequirements.This article comes from Natural Antiaging where MikeHodge reveals how to stop wrinkles and improve yourlooks the Natural way. Click below to visit Mike's

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