Blood Sugar Buster No.3: Cinnamon, Your Blood Sugar’s Best friend

Cinnamon is a wonderful spice that gives apple pie its awesome taste . It also has a beneficial effect on your blood sugar. Cinnamon helps to slow down stomach emptying which curbs the sharp rise in blood sugar , and it improves the effectiveness or sensitivity of your  insulin . This stuff could be added to our bread or cereal depending on your preference. Cinnamon is very common in our fast foods centers, but never did people wonder about the properties that it has to consumers. I am so thankful to myself that my favorite bread is cinnamon though I am not sick with diabetes.

Our family history indicates no victims of this culprit sickness. although my father due of cancer of the large intestine. I was a fresh graduate from college that time, young and life full of freedom no feeling as to how our human body should be protected.I am so thankful this time as I grow mature , for I learn many things that relate about health. I am so happy to share you what I have researched, so at least , I can help you in case you have sickness there you hate to feel.

For me, I prefer cinnamon in bread especially if coated with many of it.I like its taste and smell. The taste and smell of cinnamon could be felt as good food. Cinnamon has active compound that makes your cells more responsive to insulin , so that more glucose is removed from your bloodstream.

These are the following facts about cinnamon: 1. Cinnamon regulates your blood sugar. 2. It is considered for protection against diabetes 3. Cinnamon gives better brain function. 4. Cinnamon is also Parkinson’s disease protection.

Try to follow the following ways to include cinnamon in your daily meals. These are the following:

You have to…

1. season roasted or grilled  fruit with a sprinkle of cinnamon;

2. add a dash or two of cinnamon to hot oatmeal, overnight oats, or cold whole grain cereal;
3. stir cinnamon into almond butter, or any nut or seed butter, and use as a dip for fresh apple or pear wedges or a filling for celery;
4. freeze cinnamon in ice cubes to add zest and aroma to water or cocktails;
5. sprinkle cinnamon into your coffee, add it before you brew your coffee;
6. fold cinnamon into yogurt, along with cooked, chilled quinoa fresh cut fruit, and nuts or seeds;
7. sprinkle a little cinnamon onto popped popcorn;
8. season roasted cauliflower, sweet potatoes, spaghetti, and butternut squash with a pinch of cinnamon ;
9. add a pinch of cinnamon to lentil or black bean soup soup, or vegetarian chili, and
10. stir a little cinnamon into melted  dark chocolate and drizzle over whole nuts to make spicy ‘bark’ or use as a dip or coating for fresh fruit.

Make sure not  to overdo the eating of cinnamon, if your blood sugar is high, you need to seek advice from your doctor if it is required of you to take cinnamon as your body supplement. The foods that are stated here and qualified to have cinnamon as the ingredients or topping of our favorite foods. It is so amazing what a cinnamon  can do to our body. It also increases your energy. You would surely want to see your blood down.

References: Dr. Arlan Cage, N.D., Dr. Al Sears,  Health Forum

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