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

[Terry Decker]

You KNOW all of this without reading the article or examining the research
protocols, baselines or statistical results?  So without reviewing the
article, you jump to the conclusion that the research is seriously flawed.
You, of all people, should know better than to make a snap judgement before
checking the research.

You are making an assumption that an increase of a maximum of six
carbohydrate grams per day will create a significant statistical variation
in the diabetic population tested.  The results in this study seem to show
no significant change in the baseline tests of the placebo groups, which
suggests to me that the wheat flour had little effect on the conduct of the
test.  I suspect the peer review thought that to be the case also.  Your
complaint would make more sense if there was a major shift in the placebo
groups or the major statistical evidence was between groups rather than
changes within each group.

A greater question in my mind is whether the results will hold for a larger,
more geographically diverse population.

Whether or not you believe the research, does the daily ingestion of 1 to 6
grams of cinnamon cause any harm?

Bear


><BZZZZZT> Thank you for playing.
>
>Wheat flour is NOT a placebo relative to cassia when testing DIABETICS! Of
>COURSE the diabetics did better on the cassia. Even though the amount of
>flour in question is small, it is nevertheless a confounding variable.
>Increased carbohydrate intake causes increased insulin secretion which
>causes increased triglyceride levels. The placebo arm should have been
>something truly INERT - talcum powder, or cellulose powder, or something of
>that sort. If I were a peer reviewer for Diabetes Care, I would NEVER have
>published this paper. I *strongly* urge you to draw NO conclusions from
this
>data.
>
>For this one, I'll sign my mundane name and titles (in case anyone has
>forgotten that I know what I'm talking about here):
>
>Randy Goldberg MD
>   former lecturer in Evidence-Based Medicine for New York Medical College
>(kiS Reb Avraham haRofeh)