Mom and Medical Experts Find That Cinnamon Radically Drops Blood Sugar In Type 2 Diabetes
January 14, 2013 Kyriaki (Sandy) Venetis During the recent holiday season, my mom and I did a lot of baking together. I love making things from scratch as much as possible, and I found a great website called AllRecipes.com –which is now my favorite place for easy, delicious recipes.
Cinnamon. Stock photo.
Two of my favorite cinnamony recipes from the site are an easy and delicious bread pudding recipe and a homemade from-scratch pancake recipe.
My mom has moderate type 2 diabetes, which requires medication, so we always slightly lower the amounts of sugar in recipes. Anyway, my mom really loved both the bread pudding and especially the pancakes for dinner.
The bread pudding recipe has cinnamon in the recipe; the pancakes don’t, but my mother likes to put cinnamon on them, along with sugar-free syrup. Anyway, she started to immediately notice that her blood sugar was a lot lower than usual and couldn’t understand why.
Then, I remembered hearing that cinnamon lowers blood sugar, so I went online and found a lot of great information from WebMD – a very reputable resource.
An article – Cinnamon and Diabetes – from WebMD says “research has shown that cinnamon may lower blood sugar by decreasing insulin resistance. In one study, volunteers ate from one to six grams (about a half to a teaspoon) of cinnamon for 40 days. Researchers found that cinnamon reduced cholesterol by about 18 percent and blood sugar by 24 percent.” My mom’s blood sugar came down about this much.