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Prescription Diabetes Drugs
Cinnamon - A Tasty Nutrient For Diabetes
Posted by admin in Prescription Diabetes Drugs on April 02nd, 2010
You’ve been diagnosed with Diabetes, but you don’t want to surrender your life to it. This article is about a nutritional alternative for living with Diabetes, not just existing - Cinnamon.
Diabetes is a chronic (lifelong) disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood. Medications taken orally, injected, or transfused may be some of the first things your doctors will recommend. However, there are a number of natural remedies that can safely be utilized along with doctor-prescribed medications and the approval of your doctor - one of them being Cinnamon, and many doctors are pleased to see that their patients are taking initiative in the treatment of their health issue.
A report published in Diabetes Care illustrated that 3 grams of cinnamon a day among other things produced the best results but no dosage was recommended; that cinnamon may decrease insulin resistance and allow the body to make better use of the insulin that is made in the pancreas; improve insulin sensitivity which in turn lowers blood glucose levels; as well as help to lower blood glucose, cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Nutritional, and readily available, cinnamon can also have a positive effect on lowering triglycerides, total cholesterol and LDL (bad) cholesterol. While this and other findings are positive, and more research must be done in order to determine in cinnamon can in fact help those with type 2 diabetes, scores of people with diabetes swear that cinnamon has helped them to moderate their blood glucose.
This information in not medical prescribing and always remember, before using cinnamon in large quantities for diabetes or insulin resistance, especially if you are already taking prescribed medications, your medical practitioner should first be consulted. Cinnamon mimics the effect of insulin in the body and so blood glucose levels may drop too low. In small, controlled doses for flavoring foods and drinks, it should have nothing more than a positive effect on the body, but when used in larger more frequent doses a medical professional should be consulted and should never take the place of any prescribed diabetes medications without physician authorization.
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