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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
 
Spoonful of cinnamon helps blood sugar stay down
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.
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I think cinnamon is also an anti-inflammatory, which may not be coincidental. Boy some people are going to feel stupid when ayurveda and chinese traditional medicine are shown effective in clinical trials.


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