[Sca-cooks] Current research on the effects of Cinnamon

[Carol Eskesen Smith]

DO NOT try cinnamon oil!!!  PLEASE!  Not unless you dilute it with alcohol to about 1:2,000 first; it's dangerous ingested otherwise.  I would ot recommend eating any essential oil straight...  (It takes a lot of cinnamon to make cinnamon oil, and it's very strong.)

Regards,
Brekke
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  From: Harris Mark.S-rsve60 
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  Subject: [Sca-cooks] Current research on the effects of Cinnamon


  Sharon Gordon posted:
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  STORY LEAD:
  Spicing Up Insulin Sensitivity
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  ARS News Service
  Agricultural Research Service, USDA
  Rosalie Marion Bliss, (301) 504-4318, rbliss at ars.usda.gov
  November 21, 2003
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  Less than a half-teaspoon a day of cinnamon reduced the blood sugar
  levels of 60 volunteers in Pakistan with Type 2 diabetes who
  participated in a study by the Agricultural Research Service and
  cooperators in Pakistan. The findings were published online today in the
  December issue of Diabetes Care.
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  Thank you for posting this. I may have to try this. While I have type I diabetes, there may be some type II mixed in as my insulin requirements have gone up. I don't think that doing this will have a detrimental effect, so it may be worth trying.

  However, the article is not clear enough about whether this is 'true' cinnamon or cassia. Perhaps some research will turn up more information. Or maybe the research study didn't know of the differance so they may have used either or a mix. It also doesn't specify whether the cinnamon was in powder form in the capsules or a cinnamon oil.

  Stefan
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