MannishBoy
June 21st, 2007, 05:06 PM
Link (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2007-06-20T193126Z_01_COL070260_RTRUKOC_0_US-SPOONFUL-CINNAMON.xml)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding some cinnamon to your dessert may temper the blood sugar surge that follows a sweet treat, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Malmo University Hospital in Sweden found that adding a little more than a teaspoon of cinnamon to a bowl of rice pudding lowered the post-meal blood sugar rise in a group of healthy volunteers...
...One reason for the effect seems to be that cinnamon slows the rate at which food passes from the stomach to the intestines, according to Hlebowicz's team. Using ultrasound scans, they found that the volunteers showed a slower rate of "gastric emptying" when they ate the cinnamon rice pudding.
I often put a tsp of cinnamon in my P+F shake or CC+PB bedtime meal. If it slows food passing to the intestines, I've been doing something due to taste that actually may be good strategically, too :confused:
Nice to see something that actually tastes good working like this. Good research like this keeps coming out like this on cinnamon.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding some cinnamon to your dessert may temper the blood sugar surge that follows a sweet treat, a new study suggests.
Researchers at Malmo University Hospital in Sweden found that adding a little more than a teaspoon of cinnamon to a bowl of rice pudding lowered the post-meal blood sugar rise in a group of healthy volunteers...
...One reason for the effect seems to be that cinnamon slows the rate at which food passes from the stomach to the intestines, according to Hlebowicz's team. Using ultrasound scans, they found that the volunteers showed a slower rate of "gastric emptying" when they ate the cinnamon rice pudding.
I often put a tsp of cinnamon in my P+F shake or CC+PB bedtime meal. If it slows food passing to the intestines, I've been doing something due to taste that actually may be good strategically, too :confused:
Nice to see something that actually tastes good working like this. Good research like this keeps coming out like this on cinnamon.