The Health Benefits of Cinnamon
By Jordan Miller;
Cinnamon is an ancient herb that has and still is being used by many cultures today. Native to Ceylon, (Sri Lanka), true cinnamon, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, dates back in Chinese writings to 2800 B.C., and is still known as kwai in the Cantonese language today. Its botanical name derives from the Hebraic and Arabic term amomon, meaning fragrant spice plant. Ancient Egyptians used cinnamon in their embalming process. From their word for cannon, Italians called it canella, meaning “little tube,” which aptly describes cinnamon sticks. Interestingly enough, Ceylon (the true variety of cinnamon) is rarely used in many countries as it is not widely available. Cassia cinnamon, which is by far the most popular out of the two varieties, can be found primarily in many of the western world today. The two varieties of cinnamon, Cassia and Ceylon, have similar flavour, however the cinnamon from Ceylon is slightly sweeter, more refined and more difficult to find in local markets. Despite the difference between the two varieties, cinnamon as a whole, offers us many health benefits that are hard to ignore. Cinnamon has a long history both as a spice and as a medicine.
Controlling Blood Sugar
By far one of the most known health benefit of cinnamon is its ability to regulate our blood sugar. Cinnamon may significantly help people with type 2 diabetes improve their ability to respond to insulin, thus normalizing their blood sugar levels. Both test tube and animal studies have shown that compounds in cinnamon not only stimulate insulin receptors, but also inhibit an enzyme that inactivates them, thus significantly increasing cells’ ability to use glucose.
Boosting Brain Function
Not only does consuming cinnamon improve the body’s ability to utilize blood sugar, but just smelling the wonderful odour of this sweet spice boosts brain activity! It was found that chewing cinnamon flavoured gum or just smelling cinnamon enhanced study participants’ cognitive processing. Specifically, cinnamon improved participants’ scores on tasks related to attentional processes, virtual recognition memory, working memory, and visual-motor speed while working on a computer-based program.
Anti-Clotting Properties
Cinnamaldehyde (also called cinnamic aldehyde) has been well-researched for its effects on blood platelets. Platelets are constituents of blood that are meant to clump together under emergency circumstances (like physical injury) as a way to stop bleeding, but under normal circumstances, they can make blood flow inadequate if they clump together too much. The cinnaldehyde in cinnamon helps prevent unwanted clumping of blood platelets. (The way it accomplishes this health-protective act is by inhibiting the release of an inflammatory fatty acid called arachidonic acid from platelet membranes and reducing the formation of an inflammatory messaging molecule called thromboxane A2.) Cinnamon’s ability to lower the release of arachidonic acid from cell membranes also puts it in the category of an “anti-inflammatory” food that can be helpful in lessening inflammation.
Anti-Microbial
Cinnamon’s essential oils also qualify it as an “anti-microbial” food, and cinnamon has been studied for its ability to help stop the growth of bacteria as well as fungi, including the commonly problematic yeast Candida. In laboratory tests, growth of yeasts that were resistant to the commonly used anti-fungal medication fluconazole was often (though not always) stopped by cinnamon extracts.
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Stupid article.
Shush, apologist for BigPharma and medical quack drug pusher cartel, The world is waking up to your fraud ever more every day.
“Drug companies have long kept secret details of the payments they make to doctors and other health professionals for promoting their drugs.
$761.3 million
in Disclosed Payments
Dollars for Docs
How Industry Dollars Reach Your Doctors
Payments in Your State
Click on a state name to see the disclosed payments made to healthcare practitioners there.”
http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
Yes, he’s a quack for not believing everything he hears online. How big of an idiot are you? Not only is there no evidence at all for these claims, but there is a mountain of evidence disproving them. Get real psycho.
Mayo Clinic
from Maria Collazo-Clavell, M.D.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/diabetes/AN00939
A study published in the journal Diabetes Care in 2003 looked at 60 men and women with Type 2 diabetes who were taking diabetes pills. The participants took either 1, 3, or 6 grams of cassia cinnamon or a placebo, in capsule form, for 40 days. After this time, blood glucose levels dropped between 18% and 29% in all three groups that received cinnamon.
Cinnamon extract improves fasting blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin level in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes
http://www.nrjournal.com/article/S0271-5317(12)00102-9/abstract
American Diabetes Association
Cinnamon Improves Glucose and Lipids of People With Type 2 Diabetes
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/26/12/3215.full
Antimicrobial properties of plant essential oils and essences against five important food-borne pathogens
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1472-765X.1998.00303.x/abstract
A comparison of chemical, antioxidant and antimicrobial studies of cinnamon leaf and bark volatile oils, oleoresins and their constituents
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278691507000889
Antibacterial activity of essential oils and their major constituents against respiratory tract pathogens by gaseous contact
http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/content/47/5/565.full
Effect of cinnamon on postprandial blood glucose, gastric emptying, and satiety in healthy subjects1,2,3
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/6/1552
Glycated haemoglobin and blood pressure-lowering effect of cinnamon in multi-ethnic Type 2 diabetic patients in the UK: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial
Conclusions Intake of 2g of cinnamon for 12 weeks significantly reduces the HbA1c, SBP and DBP among poorly controlled type 2 diabetes patients. Cinnamon supplementation could be considered as an additional dietary supplement option to regulate blood glucose and blood pressure levels along with conventional medications to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-5491.2010.03079.x/abstract
Cinnamon extract induces tumor cell death through inhibition of NFκB and AP1
Results
Cinnamon extract strongly inhibited tumor cell proliferation in vitro and induced active cell death of tumor cells by up-regulating pro-apoptotic molecules while inhibiting NFκB and AP1 activity and their target genes such as Bcl-2, BcL-xL and survivin. Oral administration of cinnamon extract in melanoma transplantation model significantly inhibited tumor growth with the same mechanism of action observed in vitro.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920880/
Culture of corruption has become common within FDA, Big Pharma
http://www.naturalnews.com/035641_corruption_FDA_Big_Pharma.html
FDA Corruption Charges Letter Verified
In 2009, just as President Obama was taking office, nine scientists and physicians working at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent him a letter, openly stating and giving examples of FDA corruption that was being perpetrated at its highest levels. The nine signers had their names blacked out for fear of reprisals. The FDA recently authenticated the letter, which is about as close to an admission of corruption as the government is likely to get.
http://www.thelosangelespost.org/fda-corruption-charges-letter-verified/
WSJ Exposes Corruption at the FDA
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/wsj_exposes_corruption_at_the.php
FDA: From Corrupt to Fascist
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/fda-from-corruption-to-tyranny/
How FDA and Big Pharma mislead millions into taking dangerous anti-depressants
http://www.naturalnews.com/035113_Big_Pharma_FDA_anti-depressants.html
Big Pharma Bribes Doctors to Hook Your Kids on Drugs
http://dprogram.net/2009/07/17/big-pharma-bribes-doctors-to-hook-your-kids-on-drugs/
Double standard for big pharma bribes
http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/17/news/international/pharma_FCPA_bribery_investigations.fortune/
SEC Charges Johnson & Johnson With Foreign Bribery
J&J to Pay $70 Million to Settle Cases Brought by SEC and Criminal Authorities
Washington, D.C., April 7, 2011 – The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Johnson and Johnson (J&J) with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by bribing public doctors in several European countries and paying kickbacks to Iraq to illegally obtain business.
The SEC alleges that since at least 1998, subsidiaries of the New Brunswick, N.J.-based pharmaceutical, consumer product, and medical device company paid bribes to public doctors in Greece who selected J&J surgical implants, public doctors and hospital administrators in Poland who awarded contracts to J&J, and public doctors in Romania to prescribe J&J pharmaceutical products. J&J subsidiaries also paid kickbacks to Iraq to obtain 19 contracts under the United Nations Oil for Food Program.
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-87.htm
The case is the latest in a string of criminal investigations into illegal marketing practices by drug and device makers. Companies have repeatedly settled allegations that they paid kickbacks to doctors in the United States to induce them to prescribe drugs for, or implant medical devices in, patients who are unaware of their doctors’ financial incentives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/09/business/09drug.html
HIV Drugmakers Staged Bidding Wars to Bribe MDs
http://www.omsj.org/corruption/hiv-drugmakers-staged-bidding-wars-to-bribe-mds
I Fired My Doctor and Saved My Life. (Part 2) Doctors and Drug Pushers
Doctors and drug companies use you as a guinea pig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxY1osPjtc
Doctors: Big Pharma’s Drug Pushers
Some doctors in America profit off the drugs they push! The most powerful persuasion techniques come through doctors and hospitals because Big Pharma pays doctors to drug you up! Drug companies give doctors kick-backs (and call it education, that way it is legal) such as pens, equipment, and drug samples along with other more extreme (cash) hand-outs. Is your doctor on Big Pharma’s payroll? Is it time for Big Pharma to disclose it’s payments to doctors?
http://thesocioeconomicmarket.blogspot.com/2012/06/doctors-big-pharmas-drug-pushers.html
Ex Drug Rep — Manipulating Doctors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kOW8LNU2hFE
What Doctors Don’t Know, Wake Up America #4
We normally expect doctors to know everything about health but you would be surprised at what they donâ??t know. Chances are your doctor has little or no education on nutrition, complimentary or alternative medicine whatsoever. Is your doctor really qualified to give you advice at fitness or nutrition?
Shocking statistics on lack of training from major medical colleges.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EClPlGwty0&feature=relmfu
Psych Drugs – Doctors Serve As Middle-Man Pushers
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/drugs-medical/ssri_offlabel-00112.html