Does cinnamon beat heart disease, diabetes?
A study indicates that a cinnamon-water solution contains anti-oxidants that can slash chances of getting either disease by up to 23 percent. The Centre for Applied Health Sciences researchers in Fairlawn, Ohio, US, studied a group of ‘pre-diabetic’ obese people. Pre-diabetes preceds full-blown diabetes, reports the Daily Mail. Half the participants were given 250 mg of water-soluble cinnamon to take daily, the other half had a placebo. Sufferers become resistant to higher-than-normal levels of insulin — the hormone used to regulate blood-sugar levels — produced by the pancreas. Blood was collected at the start and end of the survey, published by the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, with cinnamon drinkers recording a 13 to 23 percent increase in antioxidants linked to lowering blood-sugar levels. Richard Anderson, who led the study for the US Department of Agriculture, said that more research was needed into the effectiveness of cinnamon juice in preventing diabetes and
